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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Guest Post: A Couple of Other F Words: Filmmaking and Family by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins

Cristan Reilly, Art Alexakis (from Everclear) and Andrea Blaugrund Nevins Andrea Blaugrund Nevins

I just watched my leading man do an interview about my film on CNN. How on earth did that happen? Just a year ago, I was in the throes of editing 180 hours of documentary footage shot over the course of 18 months. I was not in a fancy editing suite with plates of cut fruit and a fridge full of bottled water outside my door. I was in my editor’s un-air-conditioned, one-bedroom rental in the Hollywood Hills of struggling actors, not movie stars.