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Cross Post: This Is What Directors Look Like (Or at Least 9% of Them)

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I attended the launch of Melissa Silverstein's book, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talking at the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. This is a collection of interviews with over-40 female directors from around the world. Instead of the usual party-book launch, Melissa hosted a panel of directors discussing their experiences in filmmaking. She's a terrific cheerleader for women directors and they definitely need one: In a liberal industry like entertainment, women are still far behind their male counterparts. The Center For The Study of Women in Film and Television reports that Women comprised 9 percent of all directors working on the top 250 films of 2012.

By Maddy Lederman
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February 21, 2013 1:00 PM
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Cross Post: A Female Tarantino

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As a recently decided film major midway through the fall of my sophomore year, I was sitting in the back of 511 Dodge Hall at Columbia University, idly doodling in the minutes before my Script Analysis class, when our professor cut through the ambient murmur with an announcement. He wanted to apologize, he said, for an unfairness he now perceived in his choice of films to screen. To us women specifically, he wanted to explain that, “as a heterosexual male,” he was naturally drawn toward Westerns and action films—what he called “Boys With Toys”—leaving out romantic comedies and, with them, he seemed to think, his female students. And he wanted to apologize for that. To me—the girl who was writing her final project on Quentin Tarantino.

By Anneliese Cooper
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February 19, 2013 2:00 PM
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Athena Co-Chair Diablo Cody Helps Kicks Off The Athena Film Festival Tonight

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As we here at Women and Hollywood gear up for the Athena Film Festival starting tonight at Barnard College, we are so excited and thankful for the press that has been circulating about the festival. Co-chair of this year’s festival, Diablo Cody, has been speaking about the festival in a bevy of excellent interviews.

By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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February 7, 2013 2:00 PM
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Watch This: New Trailer for Athena Film Festival - February 7-10

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Check out the new trailer for the Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein), hosted at Barnard College, on February 7-10. The new trailer incorporates clips from the films playing at the festival, an incredible line up that was announced last week.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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January 16, 2013 10:00 AM
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New Trailer: Ginger & Rosa - Directed by Sally Potter

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Sally Potter's gorgeous Ginger & Rosa was one of my favorite films from last year's AFI Film Festival. A coming of age story, set during the Cold War, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) are inseparable until both step outside of their assigned roles within their friendship to disastrous results.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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January 9, 2013 12:15 PM
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Athena Film Festival Announces 2013 Line Up

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By Melissa Silverstein
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January 8, 2013 2:00 PM
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Happy New Year: Here's the First Teaser Trailer for the 2013 Athena Film Festival

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It's coming.

By Melissa Silverstein
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January 2, 2013 11:44 AM
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Athena Film Festival Needs Volunteers and Women Filmmakers

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As we previously reported, The Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein) is gearing up for its third year.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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December 6, 2012 4:00 PM
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Athena Film Festival Honors Gale Anne Hurd with The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award

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The third annual Athena Film Festival, co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein, has announced the recipients for this year’s Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor actors, directors, producers and others involved in the film community for their contributions and leadership.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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November 28, 2012 5:05 PM
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Apply for This Athena Film Festival Workshop - Crafting a Short: How to Find Your Story and Make It a Movie

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We are gearing up for the 3rd Athena Film Festival from February 7-10, 2013. We are very excited to be partnering with the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women for a day of workshops and other activities to train more women in the directing field. If you are interested in getting into directing this is something you should apply for. These people know what thay are doing. They train successful women directors in TV and film.

By Melissa Silverstein
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November 14, 2012 12:30 PM
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