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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When I first started Women and Hollywood I knew that I wanted to the site to support women and their roles and accomplishments in pop culture but I really did not know exactly what that meant.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 1, 2013 1:00 PM
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Features

Last night was a huge lady-centric night for television with the delightful Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting the Golden Globes, the premiere of season two of the criminally underwatched Enlightened starring a terrific Laura Dern (PLEASE WATCH THIS SHOW) and, as I’m sure you’ve seen from the posters, billboards and magazine ads -- season two of Girls also premiered.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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January 14, 2013 12:27 PM
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News

Last night, I ended up watching the Golden Globes in real time (with the commercials too.) The reason why that was possible was because of twitter and because I was having such a good time watching the show. It felt lighter than in years past. I am guessing a lot of that had to do with the tone that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in their terrific opening monologue (which you can see below and is worth another watch.) They told some really funny jokes and the one I enjoyed most was their statement of support for Kathryn Bigelow. "When it comes to torture I trust the lady that spent 3 years married to James Cameron." Awesome.

By Melissa Silverstein
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January 14, 2013 11:00 AM
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News

Earlier this week the Directors Guild of America announced their film nominees. In addition, they also announced nominees for television and commercials. There are quite a few women nominated for the awards including Lena Dunham for Girls.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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January 11, 2013 10:15 AM
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News

We took a look back on the news for women in and around Hollywood in 2012 and here are the topics we think resonated this past year. Let us know what you think and if we missed any big news of the year.

By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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December 28, 2012 10:13 AM
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Video

Whom do you recognize in this video?

By Melissa Silverstein
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October 22, 2012 4:43 PM
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News

Current megastar Lena Dunham is smartly trading on her success and wide name recognition and sold her first book, a book of advice to young women, entitled Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned for a whopping $3.7 million.

By Melissa Silverstein
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October 10, 2012 2:00 PM
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Television

Last week we posted a piece about the research that showed that women created 26% of the TV shows during the 2011-2012 season. But, based on the lack of women visible onstage at last night's Emmy Awards in any category but acting, you could have gotten the impression that women are basically invisible as creators, writers and directors of TV shows. (I know that women won awards given at last weekend's Creative Emmy's but they were not on TV last night for the world to see.)

By Melissa Silverstein
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September 24, 2012 10:46 AM
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Television

The Emmy nominations were released yesterday. There is a lot of good news to recognize most especially the fact that two women -- Lean Dunham and Amy Poehler -- were nominated for their comedy writing. According to Nellie at Deadline having two women nominated for comedy writing is a big and not very frequent deal. The last time it happened was a decade ago.

By Melissa Silverstein
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July 20, 2012 11:43 AM
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Television

I've been on the road so I didn't have a chance to comment on the finale of Girls. First thing I want to report on is that every single meeting I have had during the run of the show no matter who it was with, no matter what their age, the show has come up. The question was - so, what do you think about Girls? I always immediately said - I love Girls. Many times I saw relief of people's faces because they too like Girls and for some reason didn't want to say so.

By Melissa Silverstein
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June 22, 2012 10:31 AM
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