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 Documentary Short List: The Women

Awards

The Academy released it's list of 15 films (out of 124) that made the short list for the best documentary feature. The list is sent out with production companies not the directors, so it's hard at first look to see how many are directed by women. It turns out that 5 of the 15 have either women directors or co-directors. That's a decent number.