Wright State’s Reichert to receive lifetime career award at FilmDayton

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The awards and this year’s winners are:

• The Filmmaker Award – A lifetime career award for excellence in film making.

JULIA REICHERT of Yellow Springs has been called “a godmother of the American independent film movement.”

Her film “Growing Up Female” (with Jim Klein) was the first feature documentary of the modern Women’s Movement and was chosen for inclusion on the National Film Registry. Her films “Union Maids” and “Seeing Red” (with Klein) were both nominated for Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary, as was “The Last Truck” as a Short. Her film “A Lion in the House” (with Steven Bognar) premiered at Sundance, screened nationally on PBS, was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and won the Primetime Emmy for “Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Film making.” It also premiered on HBO, and at the Telluride Film Festival. Reichert co-wrote and directed the feature film “Emma and Elvis,” produced the feature “The Dream Catcher.”

Reichert is co-founder of New Day Films, the social issue film distribution co-op, which is now 40 years old. She is author of “Doing It Yourself,” the first book on self-distribution in independent film and is Professor of Motion Pictures at Wright State University in Ohio. Her new film “Sparkle” (with Steven Bognar) recently won the audience award for best short at the SilverDocs film festival.

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