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Today I’m back with Melissa Silverstein; if you didn’t catch her on Monday's episode talking about imposter syndrome, it’s a must-listen.Melissa is the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival — A Celebration of Women and Leadership at Barnard College in NYC on February 22-25thMelissa was selected to be a film envoy for the American Film Showcase, the major film diplomacy program of the U.S. Department of State. And she published “In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing,” which is a compilation of over 40 interviews from The Women and Hollywood site.She has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, NY Times, and many other publications.In today’s episode we talk about breaking big news items, she recently broke the news about Michelle Williams being paid less than Mark Wahlberg for blogging, and how Women and Hollywood got started, we talk about the problems surrounding monetisation when you have a blogging platform. We also cover Melissa’s pivot and why she went on to create the Athena Film festival at Barnard College.This month I’m talking to 3 incredible women in Hollywood. Melissa Silverstein the co-founder of the Athena Film Festival, BAFTA Award-winning Director Amma Asante and April Reign who is the creator of the infamous #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. I can’t wait for you to hear all of the wisdom these women have to offer.To find out more about Melissa, you can follow her on Twitter @Melsil. You 100% need to visit womenandhollywood.com to find more women who are creating, advocating and championing women in the film industry.Let me know what you have learned by leaving a review on iTunes via your Mac computer or on the iTunes Podcast app on your phone.You can follow me @ImiMorgan on Twitter and Instagram.
Director Amma Asante joins Simon and Mark in the studio to talk about her new film Where Hands Touch. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and Mark reviews the week's new films including Where Hands Touch, The Hustle, Pokemon Detective Pikachu, High Life and Destination Wedding. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Text: 85058 (charged at your standard network rate) Twitter: @wittertainment A Somethin' Else production.
Director Amma Asante on her new film Where Hands Touch, which follows Leyna, an Afro-German girl, living under the increasingly dangerous and racist Nazi regime during World War II. Asante discusses her approach, used in this film and in A United Kingdom and Belle, of shining a light on little known histories often involving black characters to tell us something about the world today. Years and Years is BBC One's new drama series created by Russell T Davies. Set in an imagined near future, it stars Emma Thompson as an outspoken celebrity turned political figure whose controversial opinions divide the nation. Katie Popperwell reviews. Aretha Franklin's legendary 1972 album Amazing Grace saw the singer returning to her soul routes after commercial success. The record went on to be the biggest seller of Franklin's 50 year career. Far less well known is the accompanying concert film directed by Sydney Pollack which captured the recording in raw detail, but was subsequently shelved. Forty-seven years later as the film is finally released in cinemas, record producer Joe Boyd tells the story of its long gestation. Deirdre Falvey, arts journalist for the Irish Times, on the ongoing uproar at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin which has seen over 400 theatre professionals in Ireland sign an open letter to the Minister for Culture, Josepha Madigan, expressing their "deep concern and dissatisfaction" with Ireland's national theatre under its current directors. Presenter : Samira Ahmed Producer : Dymphna Flynn
To kick off, I’m joined by Melissa Silverstein she is the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival — A Celebration of Women and Leadership at Barnard College in NYC. The seventh annual festival will take place February 22-25, 2018.Melissa was selected to be a film envoy for the American Film Showcase. And she published “In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing,” which is a compilation of over 40 interviews from the Women and Hollywood site.Melissa broke the news about the pay disparity between Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg for the All the Money in the World reshoot.In today’s episode, we talk about the difficulties you may encounter trying to make a living as a filmmaker. Knowing what you want out of your film career and knowing when to let it go. We also talk about the heavy burden of imposter syndrome and how Melissa chooses to deal with her fraudy feelings.This month I’m talking to 3 incredible women in Hollywood Melissa Silverstein the co-founder of the Athena Film Festival, BAFTA Award-winning Director Amma Asante and April Reign who is the creator of the infamous #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. I can’t wait for you to hear all of the wisdom these women have to offer.To find out more about Melissa, you can follow her on Twitter @Melsil. You 100% need to visit womenandhollywood.com to find more women who are creating, advocating and championing women in the film industry.If you like how this podcast sounds and think you can do what I do but better than you should reach out to the ShoutOut network. Visit shoutoutnetwork.co.uk to find out more about membership.Let me know what you have learned by leaving a review on iTunes via your Mac computer or on the iTunes Podcast app on your phone.Follow WannaBe @WannaBepodcast on Twitter and Instagram.To get the extended show notes listing the tools and resources, we mentioned in this episode visit wannabepodcast.comYou can follow me @ImiMorgan on Twitter and Instagram. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
This week we welcome Amma Asante, director of the acclaimed 'Belle' and this week's 'A United Kingdom' on to the Curzon Film Podcast. The true story of Ruth Williams, a typist from London, and Seretse Khama, the prince of Bechuanaland, who fell in love in the late 1940's. Asante's film uses a sweeping romance as a gateway for a poignant and powerful film about race and politics; that feels as current now as it did then. On the podcast this week are Sam Howlett, Harry Chapman and Jake Cunningham.Produced and edited by Jake CunninghamStudio services by CSRFM.comMusic supplied by incompetech.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Director Amma Asante talks to Simon about A United Kingdom, Eddie Redmayne discusses Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and Mark reviews the week's new films including Fantastic Beasts, Your Name and Gimme Danger. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast at bbc.co.uk/podcasts/5live. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Text: 85058 (charged at your standard network rate) Twitter: @wittertainment.
Amma Asante's film Belle depicts an illegitimate mixed-race girl brought up in eighteenth-century London in Kenwood House, the household of Lord Mansfield. Director Amma Asante and Dr Kit Davies talk to Matthew Sweet about the issues raised in the film. Writer Rosamund Bartlett has a first night review of Brian Friel's stage version of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons which opens at London's Donmar Warehouse tonight. There's the first column from the 2014 Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers: Tom Charlton brings those who would question the value of a research library to book. Plus Andrew Pendleton and Ryan Bourne discuss whether a globalised economy an environmental problem or a solution.