If you’ll be in the Bay Area next week, you should swing by the 3rd Annual Women Sports Film Festival (WSFF). Women and Hollywood is co-presenting the fest, whose mission is to advance gender equality in sports and filmmaking. Women and Hollywood’s Founder and Publisher Melissa Silverstein will be attending the festival screening of “Half the Picture,” a documentary celebrating female filmmakers and examining the systemic discrimination they’ve faced in Hollywood. She’ll also be participating in a panel entitled “Time’s Up, Now What?”
Directed by Amy Adrion, “Half the Picture” features interviews with Ava DuVernay, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Lena Dunham, and other women directors. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year.
Following the screening, Melissa will join Adrion, The Representation Project’s Cristina Escobar, documentarian Dawn Porter, and Camp Reel Stories Founder and Exec Director Esther Pearl to discuss the film, the entertainment industry’s treatment of women, and the effect #TimesUp and #MeToo has had so far.
The screening will take place Friday, September 28 at 3pm at the Gray Area/Grand Theater. The panel will be held at 4:30pm at the same venue. Go to WSFF’s website for more information. You can sign up for the screening via Facebook here and the panel here.
As a special gift, WSFF is also offering a discount for Women and Hollywood community members. Use the code WOMEN10 to receive 10 percent off of all festival tickets and passes.
WSFF runs September 27-29 in San Francisco and Oakland.
You can also join Melissa for drinks at an informal get-together on September 26. Presented by Mill Valley Film Festival, the gathering will be held from 5-7pm at DaDa Bar, located at 65 Post Street in San Francisco. Please RSVP to MindtheGap@cafilm.org.
Note: This event will not be open bar.
Mill Valley Film Festival will be October 4-14 in San Rafael, California.
