Women and Hollywood

Guest Post: Can Major League Dreams Defy Martial Law?

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In the face of daunting odds of gender, geography and living under the gun, women and girls are the power players in my new documentary - The Only Real Game.

By Mirra Bank
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April 30, 2013 12:00 PM
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Watch The Top 3 WNBA Picks Talk Sports and Sexuality

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While we have made great progress on gay marriage, we stil live in a world where there is not a single professional out male athlete that is currently playing a major sport. They are there, they are scared, but that's it's a really big, important step that hopefully is coming.

By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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April 22, 2013 10:00 AM
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SXSW Review - The Other Shore

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Diana Nyad is a warrior. There has never been a woman so aptly named after a Goddess. The Other Shore tells the story of Nyad's attempts to accomplish the near impossible feat, swimming the 103 treacherous from Cuba to Florida. As the documentary - directed by Timothy Wheeler - unfolds Nyad is considering taking on the swim 30 years after she had left the pool for good. She did not swim a stroke for 30 years. After retiring from swimming she went on to become a great sports broadcaster, but this unaccomplished feat, had been gnawing at her for three decades and so at 60, she decides to go for it. The training is brutal. Her intensity is beyond belief. You think she's a bit "cra cra" to be even trying this, but you are sucked into this completely super human feat.

By Melissa Silverstein
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April 2, 2013 2:00 PM
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Trailer Watch: Venus and Serena - Directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major

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Check out the trailer for Venus and Serena, directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major. The documentary gives us a look into the lives of bad-ass, iconic tennis powerhouses Venus and Serena Williams from their childhood to dominating a sport that wasn't welcoming to the pair.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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April 2, 2013 10:00 AM
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Trailer Watch: Nine for IX

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This totally made my day. As a big women's sports fan here are NINE short films about women's sports directed by women. Executive producer Robin Roberts (who returned to Good Morning America yesterday after a 5 month absence to treat a rare blood disorder) recruited some great film directors like Shola Lynch, Ava DuVernay and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 21, 2013 3:04 PM
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Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg Direct Knuckleball

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Who says women can't direct sports movies? Stern and Sundberg who directed the amazing documentary on Joan Rivers, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work have set their sights now on the world of baseball and the maligned pitchers who are known as knuckleballers. They get these guys to open up and it's a very interesting look at baseball from a different perspective.

By Melissa Silverstein
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September 19, 2012 9:26 AM
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Thank You Women Athletes for a Great Olympics

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Looking back on the last two weeks this was clearly the women's Olympics. Aside from Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt it was the women's stories that dominated the airwaves (at least here in the US.) This was the first year that the US sent more women athletes to the Olympics than men -- 268 to 255. The medal take for the US women showed dominance with them winning 29 gold medals. That number puts the US behind China which won 38 and tied with Great Britain. US men won 17 gold medals.

By Melissa Silverstein
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August 13, 2012 11:22 AM
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Viral Video: US Olympic Women Soccer Players Party in the USA

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Olympic fever is here. Getting excited for the festivities starting this weekend. Here's the US Women's Soccer team showing us they have a serious sense of humor. Go team!

By Melissa Silverstein
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July 23, 2012 3:00 PM
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Inspirational Video of the Day: Pat Summitt Receiving the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPYs

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What an amazing story. P.S. - the narrator is Reese Witherspoon

By Melissa Silverstein
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July 17, 2012 10:38 AM
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Happy 40th Birthday Title IX

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This past weekend was the 40th anniversary of Title IX. This is a big deal. What most people don't know is that Title IX is not an actual law -- it is one section of the of the Educational Amendments of 1972 -- and in actuality it has nothing to do with sports. It has to do with equal access in education. It was signed into into law by Richard Nixon.

By Melissa Silverstein
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June 25, 2012 2:43 PM
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