Excerpt from WHIO
The five decade-long career of one of the Dayton area’s most acclaimed filmmakers will be celebrated with a special exhibition in New York.
The series “Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film” is set for May 30 to June 8 at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan.
Reichert and her partner, fellow filmmaker and collaborator Steven Bognar, reside in Yellow Springs.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
