In Her Voice: A Women and Hollywood Podcast

Emma Seligman is a Canadian writer/director and winner of the 2022 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. Her debut feature SHIVA BABY was selected to screen at SXSW and TIFF in 2020 and was named a New York Times Critics Pick. In 2020, Emma was named one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch and one of Filmmaker Mag’s ‘25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her second feature, BOTTOMS, made with Orion Pictures, will premiere at SXSW 2023. 

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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Sasheer Zamata is a comedian, actress and writer who can be seen on ABC’s Home Economics, Hulu’s Woke, Comedy Central’s Robbie, the horror comedy film Spree, and Lionsgate’s romantic comedy The Weekend. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live for four seasons, and has appeared on This American Life and Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Her stand up special Pizza Mind is available to stream online and she is one half of the weekly podcast Best Friends, with her best friend Nicole Byer. She also serves as the celebrity ambassador for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and works with the Women’s Rights Project, which seeks to break down gender biases and ensure equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence.

In THE FIRST WOMAN, Sasheer takes the stage in her second stand up special, with a new hour of laughs grounded in her experiences as a woman in America post-pandemic. She mocks companies for awkwardly trying to use feminism to sell their wares. She recounts the difficult task of snitching on a public indecency. And, she analyzes the limited history of witches, airplane pilots, and women in general.

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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Amy Redford's career in the creative arts spans over three decades as a director, producer, and actor in film, television, music videos and theatre.

Her latest film, WHAT COMES AROUND, is out on August 4th, 2023. Directed by Amy Redford and written by Scott Organ based on his play, the movie charts the shifting power dynamics among a mother, her teenage daughter and the daughter's older boyfriend.

Anna (Grace Van Dien) has just turned 17 when Eric (Kyle Gallner), a 28-year-old she met online, appears on her doorstep. Anna's mother Beth is played by Summer Phoenix.

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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Aisha Harris, co-host of NPR’s beloved⁠ Pop Culture Happy Hour⁠ podcast, chats to Melissa about her new book "Wannabe, Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me".

“Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics. The nine pieces offer insight on Stevie Wonder, the Spice Girls, Pen15, and New Girl—among many other pop artifacts, of course—which might as well be parlance for, ‘Read me immediately.’”

—ELLE

Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back.

In the opening essay, an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere, Aisha traces the evolution of the “Black Friend” trope from its Twainian origins through to the heyday of the Spice Girls, teen comedies like Clueless, and sitcoms of the New Girl variety. And she examines the overlap of taste and identity in this era, rejecting the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like. Whatever the subject, sitting down with her book feels like hanging out with your smart, hilarious, pop culture–obsessed friend—and it’s a delight.

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

Subscribe to this podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

⁠Join Substack ⁠for Melissa's weekly curated list of content made by women.

Twitter ⁠@melsil⁠ and ⁠@womenahollywood⁠

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Melissa's weekly round up of all industry news dedicated to highlighting the voices of women who work in the global entertainment business.

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Diversity in Hollywood:

Greta/Barbie:

In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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Writer Maureen Ryan blows the lid on patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited in her book BURN IT DOWN.

Maureen “Mo” Ryan is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair and has written for EW, the New York Times, Salon, GQ, Vulture, Variety and the Chicago Tribune. Her reporting on bias in Hollywood is featured in the documentaries This Changes Everything and We Need to Talk About Cosby. She has served on the jury of the Peabody Awards, has won multiple Los Angeles Press Club Awards and in 2013, Complex magazine named her best TV writer in America. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and received her Masters from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism (bio from Goodreads)

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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Melissa chats with Inkoo Kang, television critic at The New Yorker. They discuss some of the TV shows they have been watching recently, including QUEEN CHARLOTTE, HAPPY VALLEY, DEAD RINGERS and documentary STOLEN YOUTH.

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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Melissa chats with director Numa Perrier, the director of THE PERFECT FIND starring Gabrielle Union, which will be released on Netflix on June 23rd 2023. 

Numa Perrier is an actor, director, writer and visual artist who has emerged as a provocative voice in the film and television landscape. Perrier’s first feature, JEZEBEL, which she wrote, directed and co-starred, premiered at SXSW and was released on Netflix in 2020 via Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY Releasing. Detailing Perrier’s real-life experiences, the film follows 19-year-old Tiffany (Tiffany Tenille) as she navigates working as an internet cam girl in the ’90s, in order to navigate her dying mother’s financial struggles. Jezebel was a fan and industry favorite nabbing The Hollywood Reporter’s Critic’s Choice List and winning Best Director and Best Feature Film at The American Black Film Festival.

Numa is the co-founder of the first streamer for Black millennials, Black&Sexy TV, serving as Chief Content Officer on the business side, while creating and showrunning over a dozen series launched by the platform, including Roomieloverfriends (executive producer, Issa Rae) and Hello Cupid (co-creator, Lena Waithe)

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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

Subscribe to this podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

⁠Join Substack ⁠for Melissa's weekly curated list of content made by women.

Twitter ⁠@melsil⁠ and ⁠@womenahollywood⁠

Instagram ⁠@womenandhollywood

Melissa's weekly round up of all industry news dedicated to highlighting the voices of women who work in the global entertainment business.

Please note there is a trigger warning for this episode (time code 09:50)

Show Notes

In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

Subscribe to this podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

⁠Join Substack ⁠for Melissa's weekly curated list of content made by women.

Twitter ⁠@melsil⁠ and ⁠@womenahollywood⁠

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FLAMIN’ HOT is the inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.

Directed by Eva Longoria

Screenplay by Lewis Colick and Linda Yvette Chávez

Produced by DeVon Franklin
Starring Jesse Garcia as Richard Montañez, Annie Gonzalez as Judy Montañez, Emilio Rivera as Vacho Montañez, Dennis Haysbert as Clarence C. Baker, Emmy® Award winner Tony Shalhoub as Roger Enrico and Matt Walsh as Lonny Mason
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In Her Voice is a Woman and Hollywood Podcast, hosted by Melissa Silverstein (Founder of ⁠Women and Hollywood⁠ and Co-Founder of the ⁠Athena Film Festival) and produced by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

Subscribe to this podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

⁠Join Substack ⁠for Melissa's weekly curated list of content made by women.

Twitter ⁠@melsil⁠ and ⁠@womenahollywood⁠

Instagram ⁠@womenandhollywood