Filmmaker Tiffany Schlain turned me onto the documentary “Who Does She Think She Is?” to screen at theaters in 50 cities nationwide on Saturday night Sunday. I’ll leave the project description (below) to the filmmakers, but my reasons for excitement are two-fold: the film chronicles female artists and mothers working against ideological and economic odds for the sake of their work, and interested individuals can host their own in-home screenings.

In a half-changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? Your children’s well-being or your own own? “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 can’t even name a handful of female artists.