Julia Bell Reichert (June 6, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist.
She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert’s filmmaking career spans over 50 years as a director and producer of documentaries.
Reichert was a four-time Academy Award-nominated director, for Union Maids (1977), Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1984), The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2010), and American Factory (2020, which won the Oscar).
She was a two-time winner of the Primetime Emmy, a two-time nominee for the Peabody Award, and a director of a film on the National Film Registry.
Reichert was the recipient of the award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). She was professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures at Wright State University.
Who is Julia Reichert’s husband Steven Bognar?
Reichert had one child, a daughter, with Jim Klein, to whom she was married until their divorce in 1986. The following year, she married Steven Bognar.
Reichert was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006, and with urothelial cancer in 2018. She died from urothelial cancer at her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on December 1, 2022, at the age of 76.
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