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Julia Reichert has been called a godmother of the US independent film movement and is a three time Oscar-nominee. Her film Growing Up Female was the first feature documentary of the modern Women's Movement. It was recently chosen for inclusion on the National Film Registry.
Her films Union Maids and Seeing Red (with Jim 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 Filmmaking. She co-wrote and directed the feature film Emma and Elvis, produced the feature The Dream Catcher directed by Ed Radtke.
Her film Sparkle (with Steven Bognar) won the Audience Award for Best Short at Silverdocs 2012, and was broadcast nationally on PBS.
She delved into the world of web-based interactive projects, co-creating an interactive non-fiction site, Reinvention Stories, about how citizens of Dayton, Ohio, are recovering from the economic downturn.
Raises Not Roses: The Story of the 9to5 Movement is a film about 9to5, an organization that brought rights, respect and raises to white collar workers. 9to5 is a little known intersection of the women's movement and the labor movement. It brought awareness of ideas such as the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, equal pay for equal work and the Family Medical Leave Act.
Julia is co-founder of New Day Films, the social issue film distribution co-op, which is now 42 years old. She is author of "Doing It Yourself," the first book on self-distribution in independent film, and articles for The Independent, a publication of AIVF. Reichert is Professor Emeritus of Motion Pictures at Wright State University in Ohio, a graduate of Antioch College, a mother, and a grandma.
She is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a member of the advisory board of the Independent Feature Project.
Julia is the 2018 recipient of International Documentary Associations Career Achievement Award.- Stunts
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Cheryl Wheeler Duncan was born on 18 August 1960 in Pensacola, Florida, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for They Live (1988), Demolition Man (1993) and Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992). She was married to Robert Lindsey Duncan, Shane Dixon and Robert Reed Sanders. She died on 12 February 2020 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA.- Suzanne Clauser was born on 25 August 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Pioneer Woman (1973), Calamity Jane (1984) and Bonanza (1959). She was married to Charles Edward Clauser. She died on 11 April 2016 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA.
- William Chappelle was born on 16 December 1938 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. William died on 29 July 1998 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA.
- Virginia Hamilton was born on 12 March 1936 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for The Planet of Junior Brown (1997) and The House of Dies Drear (1984). She was married to Arnold Adoff. She died on 19 February 2002 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA.