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Melissa Silverstein

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Founder of Women and Hollywood Producer- AWE Massive women's sports fan

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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Maggie Gyllenhaal commenting on systemic problem facing women directors: “Could it be possible that the things that women, having had a different experience of being alive in the world, want to make movies that are not always deemed high art. Who decides what’s good? Who decides what’s valuable?”
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
!!! Salli Richardson-Whitfield Makes Emmy History Again As First Black Woman To Receive 2 Drama Series Directing Noms deadline.com/2026/07/sall...
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Salli Richardson-Whitfield Makes Emmy History Again With 2 Directing Noms
Salli Richardson-Whitfield, who made history in 2024 as the first Black woman to receive an Emmy nomination for directing in a drama series has done it again.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Even from across the Atlantic Ocean, the #cannesfilmfestival is able to make my blood boil. This picture is so vile.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Happy Cannes to all my friends who are celebrating. Was glad to see Thierry Fremaux continue to get asked about gender issues. Thanks to all keeping the pressure up.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No one will make a movie about the contributions of the women pilots in WW2, but there is no limit to the male centric stories. This time it's the weather. PS- I know 2 great scripts about the women if anyone is interested.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How is this even a question?
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I can't tell you the number of times I have been told to smile. Bet every other woman has had the same experience. STOP. FUCKING. TELLING. WOMEN. HOW. TO. ACT. It's so boring and pathetic.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It kind of feels like we are back in the 1990s.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Great idea www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Rotterdam Film Fest Sets Feminist Focus Program Celebrating 60th Anniversary of NOW
"The Future Is NOW" will explore women's cinema from different periods via a combination of classics and world premieres, while IFFR also unveiled first titles for its Cinema Regained section.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It's bad out there for women directors www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Niki Caro Confronts Hollywood’s Backslide on Women Behind the Camera as She Leads Camerimage Jury
The 'Whale Rider' and 'Mulan' director warns of a “reversal” in Hollywood’s progress on women behind the camera and discusses her return to New Zealand storytelling.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Kristen Stewart on the enduring problem of gender equality in Hollywood: "“It’s like we’re not even supposed to be angry, but I could eat this podium with a fork and fucking knife—I’m so angry,” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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Kristen Stewart Lets Loose in Fiery Speech: Hollywood Is “In a State of Emergency”
As the keynote speaker at the Academy Women’s Luncheon, the actor-director didn’t hold back her frustration: “It's like we're not even supposed to be angry, but I could eat this podium with a fork and...
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I am so here for Emmaissance www.youtube.com/watch?v=0unU...
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Down Cemetery Road — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Check out the latest interview with writer/producer/actor Lisa Brenner for her film One Big Happy Family. And you get to see Linda Lavin's last film role. In AMC theatres on October 3 womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/one-big-ha...
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One Big Happy Family
Interview with producer/writer/actor Lisa Brenner
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"With exceptions like Great Gerwig and a precious few others in recent years, women are still not getting directing gigs on large budget films..." Female Directors Were Shut Out From Directing Summer Blockbusters: ‘The U.S. Senate is More Progressive Than Hollywood’ variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Female Directors Were Shut Out From Directing Summer Blockbusters: ‘The U.S. Senate is More Progressive Than Hollywood’ (Guest Column)
From 'F1' to 'Jurassic World Rebirth,' all of the summer blockbusters were directed by men, writes Martha Lauzen.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So far two movies today directed by women that deal with therapy and motherhood. If I Had Legs, I’d kick you and A Private Life. Rose Byrne goes THERE intensely in the first. What a performance. Jodie Foster shines in ways we haven’t seen her in years in the second. #tiff50
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This will be so good Jeffrey Wright & Octavia Spencer Set For Chinonye Chukwu & Tony Kushner’s ‘Death Of A Salesman’ At Focus Features And Amblin deadline.com/2025/08/jeff...
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Jeffrey Wright & Octavia Spencer Set For Chinonye Chukwu & Tony Kushner’s ‘Death Of A Salesman’ At Focus Features And Amblin
Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are starring in Focus Features Amblin's 'Death of a Salesman' directed and co-written by Chinonye Chukwu and co-written by Tony Kushner.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Trailers don't usually get me, but this one did. I'm looking forward to the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ6l...
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ELEANOR THE GREAT | Official Trailer (2025)
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Laura Mulvey To Receive BFI Fellowship It's 50th anniversary Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema which is the seminal piece on the male gaze. It basically started feminist film theory. She is a legend. deadline.com/2025/08/laur...
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Laura Mulvey To Receive BFI Fellowship
Mulvey will be handed the award at BFI Southbank on 4 November
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A24 roll continues. Saw Sorry, Baby last night. What a movie. May be the best movie that deals with the post #metoo era. Not a false note. Extraordinary performances and writing. Eva Victor is a multi-hyphenate star. The real deal. Coming next is this. Looks stellar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywFD...
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Official Trailer HD | A24
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This fucking headline from the latest @inclusionists.bsky.social report. DEI IS DOA: HOLLYWOOD’S LACK OF PROGRESS TOWARD INCLUSION I have a feeling this is just the beginning. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-popular-films-2024-08-02.pdf
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Looks like I have to start counting again. Here goes. Full main slate of New York Film Festival released. Opening, Centerpiece and Closing are all directed by men. Out of 34 films on the main slate, 9 are directed by women. That's about 38%. None are directed by Black women.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Check out Women and Hollywood's weekly newsletter of films/tv/streaming by and about women. If this is an important resource, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. All the interviews we post with women creatives are free for all. Thanks womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/women-and-...
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Women and Hollywood's Weekly Newsletter
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Been a fan of Megan Griffiths since the early days of Women and Hollywood. Here's her latest, Year of the Fox. womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/year-of-th...
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Year of the Fox
Interview with director Megan Griffiths
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
A great filmmaker Icarus Acquires Jasmila Žbanić’s ‘Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny’ Doc For North American Distribution deadline.com/2025/07/icar...
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Icarus Acquires Jasmila Žbanić’s ‘Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny’ Doc For North American Distribution
Icarus Films has acquired North American distribution rights to 'Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny'.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I am so here for this: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Behind the Incendiary New Play Confronting David Mamet
Abbi Jacobson, Billy Eichner, Heléne Yorke and Kara Young will star in a reading of Mathilde Dratwa's play, directed by Leslye Headland. "If Mamet gets to write about Weinstein, then I get to write ab...
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Check out this doc on the first woman in space and the price she and her partner paid for homophobia. womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/sally
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Sally
Interview with producer Lauren Cioffi
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
As today is the 3rd anniversary of Roe v Wade being overturned, I want to give a shout out to all the people who work in the abortion movement. Those who mostly all toil in anonymity to help women and pregnant people stay safe and allow them to control their own bodies. We all see you and thank you.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Union
Interview with Director Brett Story
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Surviving Ohio State
Interview with producer/director Eva Orner
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Row of Life
Interview with director Soraya Simi
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/jeanette Premieres June 17th on all VOD platforms.
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Jeannette
Interview with director Maris Curran
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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A Photographic Memory
Interview with Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
LOL- he is one of the biggest CAUSES of #metoo And this big democratic fundraiser is going on right wing MAGA girl Candace Owen's show to save his ass. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Harvey Weinstein’s Team Wants the Jury to Believe He’s a Scapegoat of #MeToo
In closing arguments, attorney Arthur Aidala positioned the encounters between the former mogul and the three women as part of consensual and transactional relationships.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It is a joy to share an interview with a person who has worked for so long to bring this story to life. womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/thirsty
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Thirsty
Interview with writer/director Emily Abt
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Newest interview: womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Interview with director Laura Piani
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Sirens
Interview with showrunner Molly Smith Metzler
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This was an excellent movie and Jasmila is an excellent director www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Cannes: Jasmila Zbanic Planning ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Follow-Up, ‘The Missing Part’
Jasna Djuricic returns to star in the sequel to Zbanic's Oscar-nominated historical drama, which will explore the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Kevin Spacey comparing his situation to Kirk Douglas breaking the Hollywood blacklist is bizarre and wrong. #MeToo is accountability. It is not blacklisting. deadline.com/2025/05/kevi...
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Emotional Kevin Spacey Speaks Out At Cannes About Blacklisting And Getting An Award: “It’s Very Nice To Be Back”
"Today we find ourselves once again at the intersection of uncertainty and fear in the film business and beyond," said the Oscar winner.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
What the fuckity fuck? Kevin Spacey To Be Honored At Cannes Gala What is this Better World Fund? Disgusting. “We are truly privileged to welcome Kevin Spacey as our Guest of Honor and Honoree" GROSS deadline.com/2025/05/kevi...
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Kevin Spacey To Be Honored At Cannes Gala
The Better World Fund is honoring Kevin Spacey.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Lilly
Interview with Director and Co-Writer Rachel Feldman
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Not surprising that the young are leading the way on this: Bella Ramsey, Harris Dickinson, Nicola Coughlan, Paapa Essiedu & Molly Manning Walker Among 400+ Signatories Of Open Letter To UK Film & TV Industry On Trans Rights deadline.com/2025/04/bell...
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Bella Ramsey, Harris Dickinson, Nicola Coughlan, Paapa Essiedu & Molly Manning Walker Among 400+ Signatories Of Open Letter To UK Film & TV Industry On Trans Rights
'The Last of Us' and 'Bridgerton' stars joined Harris Dickinson, Paapa Essiedu, Molly Manning Walker and more than 400 signatories to sign the letter
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is good news www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘How to Have Sex’ Director Molly Manning Walker Heads Up Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury
Walker's debut feature won the top prize at the Cannes sidebar in 2023.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Latest interview from the Women and Hollywood Newsletter- doc on Ani DiFranco womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/1-800-on-h...
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1-800-ON-HER-OWN
Interview with Director Dana Flor
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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Female Representation in Film Has Significantly Increased Over Last Decade, Says Study From Kering Women in Motion and Annenberg Inclusion Initiative
Female directors have gained significant ground in the U.S., U.K. and France since 2015, according to a study from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Spent many years tracking the number of women directors in the main competition for Cannes. For the last several years, the trades always covered it. I haven't seen any articles yet today. So I will take up the task again. There are 19 films in the main competition. 6 are directed by women. 31%
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Uninvited - Interview with Writer/Director Nadia Conners Opens in NY on April 11, LA & Miami on April 18 womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/the-uninvi...
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The Uninvited
Interview with Writer/Director Nadia Conners
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Melissa Silverstein @melsilv.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Interview with Varda Bar-Kar director of Janis Ian: Breaking Silence womenandhollywood.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Interview with Varda Bar-Kar
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