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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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Kathleen Kennedy to Receive Will Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneer of Year Award

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Kathleen Kennedy will be receiving the Pioneer of the Year award at this year’s Will Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneers dinner.
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  • By Kerensa Cadenas
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  • February 1, 2013 12:30 PM
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  • 2 Comments
More: Kathleen Kennedy, Women Producers, Lincoln

2013 Women-Created TV Pilots

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It’s prime pilot season for the networks. After all the news that’s been coming out in the last six months or so about women-created shows, we wanted to see how that’s holding up with official announcements. Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter’s amazing and extensive guide of all the pilots announced thus far, we have a rough idea. So far, The CW leads with 6 women-created shows on their roster. NBC has 4 and Fox, CBS and ABC are tied for last place with only 3 women-created shows. We will continue to update as more shows are announced.
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  • By Kerensa Cadenas
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  • January 30, 2013 11:00 AM
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More: Women Writers, Television, Women Producers, Rebel Wilson, Leslye Headland, showrunner

For the First Time Women are the Majority on Berlin Film Festival Competition Jury

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The 2013 Berlin International Film Festival announced this year’s competition jury. In a first for the festival, women are the majority of the voting body—comprising 4 of the 7 jury members.
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  • By Kerensa Cadenas
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  • January 29, 2013 12:30 PM
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  • 1 Comment
More: Berlin International Film Festival, Women Writers, Women Directors, Women Producers

Michael Moore: Zero Dark Thirty is a Movie About 'How We Don't Listen to Women.'

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Always controversial and rarely quiet political filmmaker and author, Michael Moore, has spoken out in defense of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.
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  • By Kerensa Cadenas
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  • January 29, 2013 10:00 AM
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  • 5 Comments
More: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty, Sexism, Michael Moore, Women Directors, Megan Ellison, Women Producers, Jessica Chastain

Amy Hobby and Anne Hubbell Launch Women-Focused Tangerine Entertainment

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Industry veterans, Amy Hobby and Anne Hubbell are launching Tangerine Entertainment, a production company and community meant to support women directors and interesting and strong roles for women.
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  • By Kerensa Cadenas
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  • January 26, 2013 12:00 PM
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More: Women Directors, Women Producers, Amy Hobby, Anne Hubbell, Tangerine Entertainment

2012 Celluloid Ceiling Study Results Are In. Spoiler Alert: They Aren't Great

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Following the Sundance Institute & Women in Film’s unveiling of their new groundbreaking study of women directors during the Sundance Film Festival, comes Dr. Martha Lauzen's annual Celluloid Ceiling study, which looks at how many women worked on the top 250 films of the year.
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  • By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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  • January 25, 2013 12:30 PM
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More: Women Directors, Research, Women Producers, Statistics

Good and Bad Surprises Come with 2013 Oscar Nominations

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Oscar nominations were announced this morning and per usual there were the surprises, both of the good and bad variety. Nine year old Quvenzhané Wallis becomes the youngest Best Actress nominee for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Kathryn Bigelow shockingly did not receive a Best Director nomination for Zero Dark Thirty and the much lauded film about sexual assualt in the military The Invisible War received a Best Documentary nomination.
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  • By Kerensa Cadenas
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  • January 10, 2013 12:10 PM
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More: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zero Dark Thirty, Academy Awards, Women Producers, Women Writers, The Invisible War, Quvenzhané Wallis

Where'd You Go Bernadette Gets Writers and Producers

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One of the best books I read over the holidays and last year is Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette?  It is an original, funny, touching, moving story of a 50 year old woman, Bernadette, who winds up in Seattle and becomes something of a hermit after a series of professional and personal setbacks.  The thing about the book is that is all about creativity and how when people who are uniquely talented need to create or they lose touch with themselves and as one character says "become a menace to themselves and society."
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  • By Melissa Silverstein
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  • January 9, 2013 1:30 PM
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More: Megan Ellison, Nina Jacobson, Women Producers, Gillian Flynn

Interview with Meredith Vieira - Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn't There

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This eye-opening and disturbing movie is about a woman, Tania Head, who completely fabricated a story of being a 9/11 survivor.  She so ingratiated herself into the survivor world that she was appointed the head of the survivors network.  I am still shaking my head and speechless that a person could do something so blatantly false and get away with it for so many years.  The Woman Who Wasn't There is being released on multiple VOD platforms today.
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  • By Melissa Silverstein
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  • January 8, 2013 1:30 PM
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More: Meredith Vieira, Women Producers, The Woman Who Wasn't There

Interview with Director Amy Berg and Producer Lorri Davis - West of Memphis

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  • By Melissa Silverstein
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  • December 21, 2012 2:00 PM
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More: Amy Berg, Women Directors, Documentary, Women Producers, West of Memphis, Lorri Davis

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