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Women and Hollywood
Melissa Silverstein is the founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry. She is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Athena Film Festival. The 4th annual festival will take place from February 6-9, 2014 at Barnard College in NYC. Melissa recently published the first book from Women and Hollywood, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing, which is a compilation of over 40 interviews that have appeared on the site.Email Melissa
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Francois Ozon Believes That Many Women Fantasize About Being Prostitutes
You gotta love the news that comes out of Cannes. In between burglaries (they should check and see if the Bling Ring posse is still in town) you get some wonderful juicy tidbits from artists which cause you to wonder what the fuck are these people thinking.
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- May 21, 2013 1:30 PM
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Kerry Washington Gives George Washington University Commencement Address
Our favorite DC fixer Olivia Pope (a.k.a. the lovely, talented Kerry Washington) gave the commencement address at George Washington University.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 21, 2013 12:45 PM
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Tribeca: Interview with Jane Weinstock - Co-Writer/Director of The Moment
I was traveling a lot during this year's Tribeca Film Festival but thanks to technology I was able to catch some of the movies that I really wanted to see. One of those was the Jennifer Jason Leigh starrer, The Moment, written and directed by Jane Weinstock. It was a prototype Jennifer Jason Leigh film. Broody, moody, fucked up and confused. She plays a war photographer suffering PTSD not knowing what is real and what is imagined.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- May 21, 2013 10:15 AM
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Quote of the Day: Michelle Rodriguez on Female Writers
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 20, 2013 2:25 PM
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Watch This: Lauren Graham on her New YA Novel and Parenthood
Watch the insanely charming Lauren Graham talk about her new YA novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, about a young woman who is trying to make it on Broadway in the 90s.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 20, 2013 1:15 PM
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British Study Shows Older Women are Pushed Off Screen
A British study showed that as women television hosts age, they are increasingly pushed off screen. The study, which looked at BBC, Sky, ITN and Channel 5, tallied that out of 481 presenters at all the networks only 26 women over 50 are regularly on screen.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 20, 2013 12:30 PM
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A Feminist Analysis of Rodham - the Feature Film About Young Hillary Clinton
The script Rodham by Young Il Kim has been one of the scripts on the recent Blacklist -- it came in 4th -- that has made significant buzz before it even starts production. While we hoped when the buzz began that there would be some women on the team, we were none too pleased to read that James Ponsoldt director of Smashed and the upcoming Spectacular Now got the gig.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- May 20, 2013 11:09 AM
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2013 Cannes News - Part 2
More lady news coming out of Cannes.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- May 17, 2013 5:30 PM
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Jon Stewart Takes on the Merida Makeover: The Princess and the PR
Love this. Jon Stewart kicked the shit out of Disney for their Merida makeover.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- May 17, 2013 4:02 PM
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Weekly Update May 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 17, 2013 3:00 PM
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Recent Comments
I doubt very much that "young males" make up 44% of the opening weekend B.O. My
I liked what she said about women going in and demanding the position of directing these films. I
I think KB is technically indie because her films aren't usually studio-financed, but yeah, I
If you build it...they will come.
I also would like to know where studio executives get their data for opening weekend demographics