Who Does She Think She Is?

DIRECTOR PAMELA TANNER BOLL IN PERSON! │ The competing creative demands of working as an artist and being a mother are explored in this affecting new documentary directed by Pamela Tanner Boll (who produced the 2004 Oscar winner Born Into Brothels). Offering portraits of five disparate women engaged in various artistic fields, the film will strike a chord with anyone struggling to maintain balance between work and family, and anyone interested in the history and shifting status of female artists in our culture. "An engaging documentary about the struggle to create art while nurturing life. For Maye Torres, whose mountain home in New Mexico overflows with her paintings and sculptures, this has meant divorce, guilt and feeding her three sons on $24,000 a year. Janis Wunderlich, on the other hand, seems cheerfully adept at managing five children, a husband and a successful career as a sculptor. Only when we examine her fantastical, disturbing figures do we see explicit evidence of her internal conflict...The Guerrilla Girls [also] appear for an enlightening primer on sexism in the art world" (Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times). "These woman all grapple with the same dilemmas: how to nurture others (husbands, children) without destroying the best part of themselves...Boll’s documentary is a call to arms" (Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice). Colour, Digibeta video. 84 mins.