Director Julia Reichert pictured at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2019 in Massachusetts.
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for the 2019 Nantucket Film Festival
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Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for the 2019 Nantucket Film Festival
Director Julia Reichert pictured at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2019 in Massachusetts.
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for the 2019 Nantucket Film Festival
The Academy Award-winner and activist was known as the “godmother of American independent documentaries.” She saw herself as a feminist and the curator of Midwestern stories. Reichert explored the stories of working class people in relationship to gender, social-economic class, activism and race in America.
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