Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
“The Academy” sent a Dayton-area resident an email with a subject line he couldn’t fathom when he first started making movies in the late ‘70s on a super 8 camera found in a Beavercreek ranch house.
“The subject said “Welcome to the Academy,” Yellow Springs resident Steve Bognar said.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is among the newest members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
He knew he had been nominated for the prestigious club, but said he is amazed he was accepted.
Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, Yellow Springs based filmmakers, produced a documentary that looks at the last days of GM's Moraine plants last year. HBO will air it Labor Day weekend. Photo by Jim Witmer
“It is like ‘wow, that really happened’,” Bognar said. “In the Academy are so many of the filmmakers who are my heroes and sheroes whose work has meant so much to me over the years. To join their ranks is incredible. It just means so much to me.”
He joins Julia Reichert, his partner in life and creative pursuits, in the Academy. She has been a member for about 9 years.
