Julia Reichert

Making Morning Star

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Ricky Ian Gordon, William M. Hoffman

Shot in Cincinnati, Making Morning Star presents a behind-the-scenes look at the joys and challenges of developing a new American opera. Featuring interviews with composer Ricky Ian Gordon, librettist William M. Hoffman, and director Ron Daniels, the film captures the delicate collaborative balance of personalities during an intense workshop hosted by the Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music

A Lion in the House

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Justin Ashcraft, Al Fields

Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.

Sparkle

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Sheri Williams

Sheri "Sparkle" Williams has been a star dancer with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) for nearly 40 years, a track record virtually unheard of in the professional dance community. The powerhouse dancer suffers her first serious injury, on stage during a bold performance. She must decide whether to face the tough work needed to recover in time for a return to the stage... at age 49

8:46

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Dave Chappelle

«8:46» — выступление Дэйва Шаппелла в память о погибшем Джордже Флойде. Именно столько времени его душил полицейский, пока Флойд не перестал подавать признаки жизни; и именно в это время сам Дэйв появился на свет. Выступление было записано 6 июня. Получился не столько стендап, сколько искренняя в своем гневе проповедь в адрес полицейского произвола, лицемерных звёзд и политиков, и попытка осмыслить происходящее в родной для Шаппелла стране.

"Untitled" Dave Chappelle Documentary

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle provides the community he calls home with two things desperately needed in difficult times – economic and comic relief. What began as an experimental socially-distanced live comedy show in a neighbor's cornfield, grew into an unforgettable summer with his neighbors, friends and fellow comedians.

American Factory

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Sherrod Brown

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

9to5: The Story of a Movement

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Jane Fonda, Karen Nussbaum

In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces. This movement became national, and is a largely forgotten story of U.S. twentieth century history. It encapsulates a unique intersection of the women’s movement with the labor movement. The awareness these secretaries brought to bear on women’s work reverberates even today. Clericals were the low-wage workers of their era. America now confronts the growing reality of deep income inequality. The stories and strategies of these bold, creative women resonates in contemporary America.

Methadone: An American Way of Dealing

Julia Reichert, Jim Klein

The clients of a Dayton, Ohio drug withdrawal clinic, many of whom are workers in the area factories, are the subject of this socially conscious documentary

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

Julia Reichert, Jim Klein

Oscar Hunter, Rose Podmaka

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Growing Up Female

Julia Reichert, Jim Klein

Julia Reichert

Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's movement in the early 1970s.

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Popeye Hurst, Kim Clay

The inside story of the last days of a General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio, as lived by the people who worked the line.

Union Maids

Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu

Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.

Deadbeat at Dawn

Jim Van Bebber

Jim Van Bebber, Megan Murphy

Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.

Women of Vision

Alexandra Juhasz

Frances Negrón Muntaner, Pearl Bowser

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black, white, Puerto Rican, Yugoslavian, Asian American, biracial. They are straight, gay and bisexual. What they share is a need to express their own interpretations of what American culture is and could be and a belief that this work is made particularly powerful through the media.

American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas

Yoruba Richen

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama

Barack and Michelle Obama talk with the directors of the documentary American Factory about the importance of storytelling and the impact of their film.