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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Bigelow's 80s movies were all indie films--THE LOVELESS (Pioneer films), NEAR DARK (DEG) and
Yes, and that trend for women buying more tickets continues in the 2012 report.
good point.
MPAA Theatrical Market Statistics 2012 - can be found if you Google the title. I can't post
I think her comparison to the music biz is shaky - a film director is much more like a record