Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
A Yellow Springs couple left the Ritz Carlton in Los Angeles Saturday with one of the biggest prizes the film industry offers.
Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for their locally filmed movie “American Factory.”
Reichert, a nationally acclaimed artist who has been called the godmother of the American independent film movement, is battling a rare and deadly cancer.
She and Bognar rocked matching shaved heads and coordinating suits during the ceremony.
Hand in hand with Bognar, Reichert led him in a jog to the podium after reaching the stage.
“Our story comes from my hometown in Ohio, and it is about working people. Documentarians bear witness, and we are profoundly grateful to the factory workers in Dayton, Ohio and Fuqing, China who allowed us to tell their stories and bear witness to their hopes for a good safe job, for a secure life and for a future for their children,” Reichert said.
