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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Watch This: Full Trailer for Kimberly Peirce's Carrie

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After months of teaser trailers, the full trailer for Kimberly Peirce's Carrie is here. Starring Chloe Grace Moretz as the iconic title character, Peirce's reinvisioning of the film is said to be closer to Stephen King's original text.

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April 8, 2013 10:00 AM
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This month’s issue of The Advocate features an incredible interview, with Kimberly Peirce, talking at length about her upcoming remake of Carrie and its surprising linkage to Peirce’s first movie Boys Don’t Cry.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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January 31, 2013 10:00 AM
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It's a little hard not to be wary of a Carrie remake. The iconic 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek and a terrifying Piper Laurie is one of my favorite horror movies. But bring in acclaimed director Kimberly Peirce, one of my all-time favorite actresses Julianne Moore and arguably one of the best young actresses working right now, Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie--it's hard not to be sold. The teaser trailer cements that this will be a movie to see when it hits theaters in the spring.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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October 17, 2012 9:06 AM
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Apparently Columbia University's film school doesn't think so. They are holding a panel at their 25th anniversary film festival on May 9 entitled: What Glass Ceiling? The Remarkable Success of Columbia’s Women Filmmakers.