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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Jon Stewart Takes on the Merida Makeover: The Princess and the PR

Video

Love this. Jon Stewart kicked the shit out of Disney for their Merida makeover.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 17, 2013 4:02 PM
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Features

In 2012, I waited until the last possible minute. It wasn’t until December that I posted Reel Girl’s Gallery of Girls Gone Missing from Children’s Movies in 2012. Even though in the age of the internet, the facts were impossible to miss, I kept hoping that, somehow, I’d overlooked something.

By Margot Magowan
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January 29, 2013 11:00 AM
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News

Last week, Disney announced that Jennifer Lee, writer of the hit Wreck-It Ralph, will be co-directing their 53rd full length animated feature film, Frozen. Lee will become the 2nd woman to helm a Disney film, but the first from Disney proper (as far as we can tell). Brenda Chapman who co-directed Brave was the first and she was fired by the studio a year before the film came out. And we should remember that Chapman was employed by Pixar, which is owned by Disney.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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December 3, 2012 10:28 AM
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Video

Start your day off with a little levity. We're all going to need it. It's kind of funny that Princess Leia our first example of a kick ass competent woman in sci-fi has joined the family of Disney princesses.