WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?

A film by Pamela Tanner Boll

7:00-9:00pm Tuesday, May 4

CBC Radio Room

1559 South Park Street, Halifax,

$10 at the door

Screening will be followed by a panel discussion presented by Women In Film & Television-Atlantic. Panelists include broadcaster, teacher and activist Dr. Rita Deverell, award winning documentary filmmaker Dr. Sylvia Hamilton, and producer Karen Wentzell, co-producer of the hit Showcase television comedy, Trailer Park Boys.

Directed by Pamela Tanner Boll, best known for the Academy Award-winning Best Documentary Feature “Born Into Brothels,” Tanner Boll’s “Who Does She Think She Is?” examines the mothering-versus-working choice faced by American women, and women artists in particular.

Focusing on five particularly bold women artists, each radically different in background, race, religious creed and choice of artistic field. But they all share the common challenge of making careers in various art worlds. Simultaneous to their creative existence, they are pulled in different directions as they try to answer the competing demands of artistic fulfillment, marriage, motherhood and economic survival.

From Hawaii’s Big Island to the suburbs of Ohio, from New York City to the deserts of New Mexico, WDSTSI follows five women, ranging in age from 27 to 65, as they each chart a path to create their individual type of art.

Interviews with such experts as Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade), Maura Reilly (Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art- Brooklyn Museum) and Leonard Shlain (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess) add a cultural context for these women’s compelling journeys.

It is not acclaim or approval these mother-artists seek. Rather, their quest is the radical opportunity to live whole lives.

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