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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.Email Melissa
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Weekly Update May 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
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- May 24, 2013 3:00 PM
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Sue Kramer to Direct Amy Fine Collins' 'The God of Driving'
Sue Kramer, director of Gray Matters, is set to direct her adaptation of Amy Fine Collins' The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man).
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- May 24, 2013 11:30 AM
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Fill The Void- Written and Directed by Rama Burshtein
I saw Fill the Void back in September at the Toronto Film Festival. It's been making its way around the country on the film festival circuit before opening in limited release this weekend.
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- May 24, 2013 10:30 AM
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The Importance of Changing Perspective
Since I write on the web, I spend a lot of time, as you can imagine, in front of my computer. Most days all day (except for a couple of dog walking breaks.) But this spring due to the fact that I had a book to promote...BTW, have you gotten your copy of In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing yet?
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- May 23, 2013 2:27 PM
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Lake Bell On Women Directors: If You Happen to Have a Vagina, That's Okay
Lake Bell, director of the anticipated summer film In A World, spoke in an interview for her latest film that she acts in, Black Rock, directed by Katie Aselton, about being a woman director in Hollywood.
- By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 23, 2013 1:30 PM
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Zooey Deschanel Directs New She & Him Music Video
Last week, Rashida Jones made her directorial debut with a music video for Sara Bareilles' "Brave." This week, Zooey Deschanel, announced her own directorial debut with the She & Him music video for "I Could've Been Your Girl."
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 23, 2013 11:30 AM
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Sony Head Amy Pascal on Women Directors: The Whole System is Geared for Them To Fail
Holy crap. In a revealing interview with Forbes' Dorothy Pomerantz on the occasion of the publication of the most powerful women in the world list, Sony studio chief Amy Pascal, the only female head of a major studio, actually answered some questions about the status of women in Hollywood, especially related to women directors.
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- May 23, 2013 9:03 AM
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Tribeca: Interview with Jane Weinstock - Co-Writer/Director of The Moment
I was traveling a lot during this year's Tribeca Film Festival but thanks to technology I was able to catch some of the movies that I really wanted to see. One of those was the Jennifer Jason Leigh starrer, The Moment, written and directed by Jane Weinstock. It was a prototype Jennifer Jason Leigh film. Broody, moody, fucked up and confused. She plays a war photographer suffering PTSD not knowing what is real and what is imagined.
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- May 21, 2013 10:15 AM
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Weekly Update May 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
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- May 17, 2013 3:00 PM
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Odes to Female Friendships Rule The Weekend with Katie Aselton's Black Rock and Frances Ha
This weekend, two very different films that explore the intricacies of female friendships are hitting theaters (and VOD) near you: Katie Aselton's thriller Black Rock and Noah Baumbach's wry Frances Ha.
- By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 17, 2013 2:30 PM
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