Screen Grabs: Tributes to three trailblazing women filmmakers

Screen Grabs: Tributes to three trailblazing women filmmakers

In a period of drastically escalating media monopolies and nervous cultural retrenchments, it was no surprise to read last week that the number of major-studio features directed by women is already taking a hit, down last year from the year before. But then women have long been better-represented in experimental, documentary, and arthouse cinema than the commercial mainstream. Three influential women filmmakers are all getting tributes hosted by…