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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Circumstance Producer Karin Chien Takes on the Producers Guild

There has been a bit of a controversy last week over the Producer's Guild nominees. Karin Chien, the producer of Circumstance learned that her film was disqualified from the PGA Awards because the film is not in English.

The PGA says that at this time they do not accept foreign language films at all for consideration. They do not distinguish between foreign produced films and foreign language films produced by people in the US. To me there is a big difference. This is an organization where a producer can qualify to join based on the work you do on any film no matter what language it is, but you can't get any awards unless the film is in English.