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Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Documentarian, Dead At 76

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Documentarian, Dead At 76

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Documentarian, Dead At 76
Dec 03, 2022 1 min, 15 secs

Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind “American Factory” whose films explored themes of race, class and gender, often in the Midwest, has died.

Often called the “godmother of American independent documentaries,” Reichart told the stories of ordinary Americans, from autoworkers dealing with both plant closures (2009′s “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”) and foreign investors (2019′s “American Factory”), to members of the American Communist Party (1983′s “Seeing Red”) to female labor activists in the 1930s (1976′s “Union Maids”).

In her 50 years of filmmaking, Reichert won two Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for four Oscars, winning one with her partner Steven Bognar for “American Factory” in 2020.

She and Bognar worked for eight years to make the 225-minute-long, Primetime Emmy Award-winning “A Lion in the House,” which looked at five families dealing with childhood cancer in Ohio.

“American Factory” put Reichert and Bognar in a different kind of spotlight when Barack and Michelle Obama took interest in their film about an Ohio auto glass factory that had been purchased by a Chinese investor.

More recently Reichert and Bognar directed “9to5: The Story of a Movement,” about an organization that is trying to improve working conditions and maintain rights for women and families, and “Dave Chappelle: Live in Real Life,” following the comedian’s Yellow Springs shows in 2020 during the pandemic.

Throughout her career, Reichert made sure to pass on her wisdom to others, teaching film at Wright State University from 1985 through 2016 and writing a book about self-distribution called “Doing It Yourself.”.

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