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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Anne Hathaway and Chloe Grace Moretz Sign onto Lynn Shelton's Laggies

News

When Women and Hollywood interviewed Lynn Shelton earlier in the year at Sundance, she mentioned her next project, Laggies, written by Andrea Seigel. Shelton described it about a twentysomething woman, who is passive in her life. When her longtime boyfriend proposes, she freaks out and hides out with her new best friend, a 16 year old girl.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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April 1, 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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Features

By Melissa Silverstein
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January 18, 2013 1:00 PM
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News

The nominees for the 22nd Annual Independent Filmmaker Project’s Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced today. A total of 26 Films were nominated in six categories. Actress Marion Cotillard will be honored with a career tribute. And for the second year in a row, the IFP will present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream Grant.’ The grant consists of a $25,000 award to help support the first feature project of a woman filmmaker. The awards ceremony will take place on November 26th in New York.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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October 18, 2012 6:07 PM
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Features

On the heels of Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister comes another indie dramedy about a love triangle, writer-director Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz. Waltz is Polley's follow-up to her universally acclaimed debut, Away With Her, and stars Michelle Williams as Margot, a married twentysomething copywriter who meets and falls for a man (Luke Kirby) while on vacation... who turns out to be her neighbor. Comedic actors Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman add familiar faces and levity to the cast by playing Margot's cookbook-writing husband, Lou, and Geraldine, Margot's sister-in-law.

By Inkoo Kang
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July 11, 2012 11:26 AM
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Blogs

By Melissa Silverstein
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June 15, 2012 12:30 PM
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