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Star Trek’s Gender Problem

May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments | ByMelissa Silverstein

Star Trek film, directed by JJ Abrams

Star Trek film, directed by JJ Abrams

 

 Didn’t you just love Startrek? Our friend Melissa Silverstein from the fab blog Women and Hollywood was all excited to see it, but had some serious frustrations about the missed opportunity to bring women into the future (as anything other than mothers or sex symbols, that is)…

 

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Rachel chats to Elizabeth Karlsen, producer of Sounds Like Teen Spirit

May 13, 2009 | No Comments | ByRachel Millward

It's Eurovision...But Not As We Know It

It's Eurovision...But Not As We Know It

Elizabeth Karlsen has produced more films than we’ve had cold lunches: The Crying Game, Hollow Reed, Little Voice, Ladies in Lavendar, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (which starred our wonderful patron Juliet Stevenson), How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and now the seriously good-time and brilliant doc Sounds Like Teen Spirit. Wide-eyed with wonder at all this success, Rachel asked her how she did it, and her thoughts on women in the biz…

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