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.Email Melissa
Recent Comments
Jesus h christ shut the fuck up. shes hot and thats kirks character. she did a great job in the film
Why is this even an issue? There are scenes like this in Game of Thrones all the time and their but
This is bad enough, but then there was the ridiculous sexism of the guys blabbing on the 2009 Start
@jgee: I am amazed by the rationality of your reasoning, in particular how you used reductio ad
@Anita: great, now Ozon said that women secretly wanted to be strippers... aaah the Internet.