
X-POLLINATOR: INCUBATOR ANNOUNCES SIX SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
X-Pollinator is delighted to announce six projects which have been chosen to take part in INCUBATOR, a brand new female-driven development initiative that aims to…
Read MoreMelissa Silverstein is the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood, an initiative
and website that educates, advocates, and agitates for gender diversity and inclusion in
Hollywood and the global film industry. She is a speaker and consultant with extensive
expertise in the area of women and Hollywood. She is the Artistic Director and Co-
Founder of The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College which is a weekend of inspiring
films that tell the extraordinary stories of fierce and fearless female leaders. The 10th
annual festival will take place from February 27 – March 1, 2020.
In 2018, Melissa was named to Variety’s New York Power list and in 2016, she received
the Marie C. Wilson Emerging Leader Award from the Ms. Foundation for Women. In
2015, she was selected to be a film envoy for the American Film Showcase, the major
film diplomacy program of the U.S. Department of State. In 2013, she 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.
Melissa has written for numerous publications including: The Washington Post, NY
Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg and her work has been featured on CNN, the
BBC as well as in Newsweek, Salon, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, NY Times, and
many other publications. She was a contributor to The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of
Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thriller of Our Time.
Previous experience includes work on high profile public education campaigns such as
Take Our Daughters to Work Day, and she was the founding project director for The
White House Project. Prior to that was the Chief of Staff at the Ms. Foundation for
Women.
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X-Pollinator is delighted to announce six projects which have been chosen to take part in INCUBATOR, a brand new female-driven development initiative that aims to…
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