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.

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Trailer Watch: August: Osage County - Starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts

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August: Osage County, based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer winning play, looks to be another powerhouse role for Meryl Streep. Streep plays Violet Weston, the troubled matriarch of the dysfunctional Weston family who have come back together in light of a family crisis.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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May 14, 2013 12:45 PM
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Features

You know I hate all the princess shit that we see everywhere. The film business has up it ass that boys get to be superheroes and girls get to be princesses. The boys save the girls and the girls need to be saved. Like anyone believes that shit anymore.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 9, 2013 12:00 PM
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Features

By Keith Dodge
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November 26, 2012 1:00 PM
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Blogs

Julia Roberts gets ready to hit the big screen in a big way as the evil Queen in Mirror, Mirror on March 30 and Jennifer Lawrence will take her bow and arrow to the masses as Katniss Everdeen in the first installment (of what better be three) Hunger Games films.

By Melissa Silverstein
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July 1, 2012 6:24 PM
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Blogs

Last Thursday, Hollywood came out to honor one its most beloved and enduring stars - Shirley MacLaine with the 40th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. She is only the 7th woman to receive the honor. The other women to receive the honor were Bette Davis in 1977; Lillian Gish in 1984; Barbara Stanwyck in 1987; Elizabeth Tayor in 1993; Barbra Streisand in 2001; Meryl Streep in 2004.

By Melissa Silverstein
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June 11, 2012 12:06 PM
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Reviews

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 30, 2012 11:34 AM
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Trailer Watch: Mirror, Mirror

Here's the trailer for the second Snow White movie coming out next year. It looks much better than I thought it would. Nathan Lane playing sidekick to the evil Queen, Julia Roberts. And Snow White seems to actually have bit of spunk. I'm not writing this one off yet.

By Melissa Silverstein
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November 16, 2011 9:49 AM
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