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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The LA Times Talks to Three Women Directors - Where is the Female Equivalent of Woody Allen?

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Check out the LA Times piece on Ava DuVernay, Jullie Delpy and Leslye Headland. While things still suck for women directors, it kind of feels like the conversation is shifting. Maybe I am being too optimistic, but I am forever hopeful. I will be interested to see the statistics at the end of 2012 to see if any movement has been made. Here at Women and Hollywood we are keeping track of all the films released directed by women on pinterest. Right now it is just features. We will also work on a documentary plage. Please let us know if we missed any films. We will update as often as possible.

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August 10, 2012 1:03 PM
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This is Delpy's follow-up to 2 Days in Paris. Opens August 10 in theatres.

By Melissa Silverstein
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June 18, 2012 10:08 AM
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Julie Delpy is no a shrinking violet. She has many awesome opinions about how Hollywood treats women, which could be one of the reasons why, according to her, she has been fired by every agency in town.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 14, 2012 11:04 AM
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I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

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March 10, 2012 10:25 AM
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The leading ladies of "Bachelorette."

While there weren't enough films directed and written by women in the competition as I would have hoped, the list of premieres looks at bit different. Check out the description for Bachelorette- could it be any more like Bridesmaids? It better be good cause if this starts a trend of more crappy wedding films...

Check out the women directed, women written and women centric films coming to Sundance in January. Some films could fit into more than one category. (descriptions off the Hollywood Reporter site)

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December 6, 2011 10:00 AM

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