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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Magnolia Pictures Picks Up Lynn Shelton's Touchy Feely

News

Magnolia Pictures has acquired the world-wide distribution rights to Lynn Shelton's Touchy Feely.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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March 13, 2013 12:30 PM
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Interviews

I had never met Lynn Shelton before last month but I already felt like I knew her. She has a way of telling us stories about other people that are really about all of us. Her new film Touchy Feely is about about a brother a sister, one who touches for a living and one who makes a point of not getting too close to anyone. The film is about conections and about intimacy and stars the incomparable Rosemarie DeWitt as a massseuse who developes an aversion to touching with a terrific performance by Josh Pais as her brother who begins healing through his touch.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 5, 2013 2:00 PM
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Video

The film premiered at Sundance 2012 and will open in theatres on October 12

By Melissa Silverstein
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August 8, 2012 9:45 AM
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Blogs

By Melissa Silverstein
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June 15, 2012 12:30 PM
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Video

Are we going to get to see a more mature Kate Hudson? One can only hope. This film will release on VOD on April 3 and in theatres on May 4. The premise is a cliche. Young woman gets cancer and falls in love with her doctor.