Reichert and her partner, fellow filmmaker and collaborator Steven Bognar, reside in Yellow Springs.
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Credit: Amelia Robinson
Credit: Amelia Robinson
They picked up the U.S. documentary directing award for their film “American Factory” at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Netflix plans to release the film shot at the Fuyao Glass America plant in Moraine.
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It is among the first projects expected to be released as part of a partnership between the streaming service and President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company.
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"Beginning with her debut, Growing Up Female (made with Jim Klein in 1971), considered the first feature documentary of the modern women's movement — and a recent addition to the National Film Registry — the series showcases all of Reichert's feature documentaries," part of the MoMA salute description reads.
The retrospective is being organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus.
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After its debut in New York, the series will be featured at the Wexner Center for the Arts Oct. 2-30. It will also appear at the Cleveland Cinematheque, the Speed Museum in Louisville, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Springs, Md.
Reichert has won many prestigious honors in her career.
“A Lion in the House,” made with Bognar in 2006, won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking, and the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Media.
Credit: Lisa Powell
Credit: Lisa Powell
Her films — “Union Maids” (1977), “Seeing Red” (1984) and “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” (2010) — were Academy Award nominees.
The retired Wright State University film professor served as associate producer on Illinois filmmaker Edgar A. Barens’ short documentary “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall.” That film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014.
She won the Chicken and Egg Pictures inaugural Breakthrough Filmmaker Award.
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The MoMA stop includes the following screenings:
American Factory | 7 p.m. Thursday, May 30. A discussion featuring Reichert will follow.
9to5: The Story of a Movement | 7 p.m. Friday, May 31. The film will be introduced by Reichert
Methadone: An American Way of Dealing | 2 p.m. Saturday, June 1 and 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June, 6
Growing up Female | 4 p.m. Saturday, June 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communist | 7 p.m. Saturday, June 1. A discussion with Reichert and other filmmakers will follow.
A Lion in the House | 2 p.m. Sunday, June 2 and 2 p.m. Saturday, June 8
Tour information, Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film
Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts
MoMA, May–June 2019
Wexner Center for the Arts, October 2019
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, November 2019
Cinematheque at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, November–December 2019
Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art, November–December 2019
Northwest Film Center, Portland, Oregon, January 2020
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, February 2020
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 2020
Museum of Fine Art , Houston, March 2020
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, May 2020
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May–June 2020
Featured Titles
• Growing Up Female (1971, 52 mins., DCP)
• Methadone: An American Way of Dealing (1974, 60 mins., DCP)
• Union Maids (1976, 48 mins., DCP)
• Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983, 100 mins., DCP)
• A Lion in the House (2006, 225 mins., DCP)
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2009, 40 mins., DCP)
• Sparkle (2012, 18 mins., DCP)
• Making Morning Star (2016, 37 mins., DCP)
• American Factory (2019, 115 mins., DCP)
• 9to5: The Story of a Movement (2019, approx. 85 mins., DCP)
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