Women and Hollywood Shutters Namesake Blog, Launches Podcast: ‘To Continue the Revolution, Evolution Is Necessary’

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its namesake blog, founder Melissa Silverstein announced Monday. The move went into place on April 1, she said, in an effort to evolve the company’s mission and expand to a new podcast initiative, “In Her Voice: A Women and Hollywood Podcast.”“Have no fear: I will be launching the truth bombs and amplifying women’s voices,” Silverstein said in a statement. “But it will be in a different way.”The podcast, launching later this month, “will be a place where I will cover news and interview creatives,” Silverstein continued. “I am excited to get back to talking to the women who are effecting change and well as those whose creative visions are coming to our screens.”Big news from Women and Hollywood.

pic.twitter.com/IDJ3tKvj6NSilverstein remembered starting the site 15 years ago as one of the industry’s first distinct efforts to start a conversation about the role women played in front of and behind the camera.

That helped pave the way to co-founding the Athena Film Festival 13 years ago and igniting a wider acknowledgement and understanding of the disparities between gender in Hollywood that “is fully embedded in our culture and is covered by mainstream outlets” today.The podcast “In Her Voice” is an expansion on Silverstein’s book of the same name and will run 30 minutes in length. “The work is not done, far from it, but in order to continue the revolution, evolution is necessary,” she said of the shift in medium.In addition to launching the podcast, Silverstein revealed Women and Hollywood’s new creative consultancy initiative, the Doula Program.

Inspired by her work in the Creative Development Program at the Athena Film Festival, the program will be “part strategic consultant, part doula.”“We will be the creative advocates.