Female Film Directors Having An Unusually Strong Summer

“Of all the films you saw last year, it’s statistically likely that fewer than 10 percent were directed by women. … It’s worth mentioning that no woman has ever won an Oscar for directing. A grand total of three have been nominated during the award’s eight decades of history. All that said, an unusually high number of films made by women are in distribution in theaters around the country right now — which is to say, there are seven.”