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Artists on Film "Who Does She Think She Is?"
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Directed by Pamela Tanner Boll and Nancy Kennedy
USA, 2008
Color
82 Minutes
Show Times:
Sat., May. 9 7:00 PM
Sun., May. 10 3:00 PM
In person Saturday: filmmaker Nancy Kennedy
"In a half-changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five fierce women who refuse to choose. Through their lives we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times, where most people cannot even name a handful of women artists." —www.whodoesshethinksheis.net
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Nancy Kennedy is a New York-based editor who has edited several award-winning films including Sundance Grand Jury Winner Why We Fight (2005), and Sundance winners Thank You and Goodnight and Riding the Rails. She has also codirected and edited several independent documentaries, most recently, Bluegrass Journies and Who´s on First? (baseball comes to Greece), and is currently directing a film about feminism, She´s Beautiful When She´s Angry. Her many editing credits include work on television series such as Great Performances, American Experience, Wide Angle, 60 Minutes, and National Geographic Specials.
Join filmmaker Nancy Kennedy for a post-film reception at Ernie´s on Banks (1010 Banks) from 9:00-10:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 9.
Cosponsored by the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP), Women in Film and Television/ Houston, Friends of Women´s Studies, and the Women´s Studies Program at the University of Houston. This project is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
 Click here to visit the film´s Web site.
Be sure to check back for additional screenings or changes in the Films schedule. You can also contact us with questions about future films at film@mfah.org.
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