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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By Kerensa Cadenas
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August 16, 2012 9:42 AM
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If you look around the landscape of film festivals there are many women's films festivals all across the world. But those who work in that area are struggling especially during these difficult economic times. I've been to a women's film festival in Germany that survived budget cuts and put on a great edition last spring that was embraced by the community and the local politicians. I've been to a festival in Romania that wasn't a women's film festival but had a section on female directors and those films were very strong, as strong, or stronger than the films in the main section of the lineup. And I've recently spoken also with the main programmer at the oldest women's film festival: Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil in France and they are struggling for their identity.