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Documentary’s Leading Figures Pay Tribute To Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Who Lost Battle With Cancer

Documentary’s Leading Figures Pay Tribute To Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Who Lost Battle With Cancer
The documentary community is mourning one of its most treasured artists, filmmaker Julia Reichert. The Oscar-winning American Factory director died Thursday night at her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio of a form of cancer affecting the bladder and other organs. She was 76.

“I love this special woman… We can see her sweetness, joy, passion and love in every frame,” filmmaker Ondi Timoner wrote on Facebook. “You were a gift to us all, an inspiration for all the best parts of being human, and you uplifted everyone you touched with your work. I feel so lucky to have known you all these years.”

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Rip Julia Reichert, the most beloved person in the documentary community, an angel & a beacon.
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Oscar-Winning Documentarian Julia Reichert Dies at 76

Oscar-Winning Documentarian Julia Reichert Dies at 76
Documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, who won an Oscar with her partner Steven Bognar for American Factory, has died. Reichert passed away in her Ohio home on Thursday night from urothelial cancer after being diagnosed as Stage Four back in 2018. She was 76. Reichert’s filmography has championed the plight of marginalized Americans, particularly through the lens of gender and class. Her first film, Growing Up Female (1971), examined the lives of six women, ages four through 35, and their gendered socialization within American culture. The film was originally completed as her senior project while attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, […]

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Oscar-Winning Documentarian Julia Reichert Dies at 76

Oscar-Winning Documentarian Julia Reichert Dies at 76
Documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, who won an Oscar with her partner Steven Bognar for American Factory, has died. Reichert passed away in her Ohio home on Thursday night from urothelial cancer after being diagnosed as Stage Four back in 2018. She was 76. Reichert’s filmography has championed the plight of marginalized Americans, particularly through the lens of gender and class. Her first film, Growing Up Female (1971), examined the lives of six women, ages four through 35, and their gendered socialization within American culture. The film was originally completed as her senior project while attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, […]

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Julia Reichert, Documentarian Behind Oscar-Winning ‘American Factory,’ Dies at 76

Julia Reichert, Documentarian Behind Oscar-Winning ‘American Factory,’ Dies at 76
Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning documentarian behind “American Factory,” died Thursday after a long battle with bladder cancer, her husband and frequent collaborator Steven Bognar confirmed to TheWrap. She was 76.

Over the course of her five-decade career, Reichert became known as the godmother of American independent documentary filmmaking. Her work illuminating the intersections of race, gender, class and labor has received numerous accolades. Thrice nominated at the Academy Awards – for “Union Maids” (1976), “Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists” (1983), and “The Last Truck: Closing of a Gm Plant” (2009) – Reichert won the Oscar for “American Factory” in 2020. She accepted the award alongside her co-director Bognar.

Reichert also earned two Emmy Awards, two Peabody nominations and won the Directing Award at Sundance 2019. The International Documentary Association honored her with the Career Achievement Award in 2018.

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Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Documentarian of ‘American Factory,’ Dies at 76

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Documentarian of ‘American Factory,’ Dies at 76
Julia Reichert, the veteran documentarian who won an Oscar in 2020 for her feature “American Factory,” died on Dec. 1 due to cancer, Variety has confirmed. She was 76.

Across her more than 50 years as a filmmaker, Reichert received four Academy Award nominations and one win, two Primetime Emmys, a Director’s Guild Award and two Peabody Award nods. Her documentaries, including Oscar nominees “Union Maids,” “Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists” and “The Last Truck: Closing of a Gm Plant,” dealt with themes of gender, class, race and the global economy.

Reichert and her partner Steven Bognar frequently collaborated together, including on their best documentary feature winner “American Factory,” “Dave Chappelle: Live in Real Life,” “8:46,” “9to5: The Story of a Movement,” “Making Morning Star,” “Sparkle,” “The Last Truck: Closing of a Gm Plant” and “A Lion in the House.”

After being born and raised in Bordtentown Township, N.J., Reichert
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Julia Reichert Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘American Factory’ Documentarian Was 75

Julia Reichert Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘American Factory’ Documentarian Was 75
Julia Reichert, the documentary filmmaker who won an Oscar in 2020 with husband and directing partner Steven Bognar for American Factory, died last night of bladder cancer. She was 75.

A longtime resident of Yellow Springs, Ohio, her death was announnced by the area’s public radio station Wyso, where Reichert had previously hosted a weekly show.

With a focus on class issues, gender inequality, race and and the global economy’s impact on middle-class – and often Midwestern – America, Reichert’s films included such Oscar nominees as Union Maids (1976) Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists and The Last Truck: Closing of A Gm Plant, the latter film documenting the closing of a Gm plant in the Dayton suburb of Moraine.

The couple’s Oscar came with American Factory, an in-depth look at the economic, social ramifications and culture clashes when that abandoned Gm plant of The
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Julia Reichert, Legendary Feminist Filmmaker and ‘American Factory’ Oscar Winner, Dead at 76

Julia Reichert, Legendary Feminist Filmmaker and ‘American Factory’ Oscar Winner, Dead at 76
Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning co-director of “American Factory” and a longtime fixture of American documentary since the 1970s, has died at 76 after battling cancer.

A champion of women’s rights and the working class whose films were ahead of their time in their intersectional exploration of class, gender, and race in America, Reichert was also a trailblazing leader and passionate advocate for the documentary community.

Born in New Jersey to a working-class family, Reichert started as a social activist and never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. “That was a job overwhelmingly for the wealthy,” said Jim Klein, Reichert’s partner from the 1960s to the 1980s and co-director of her early films. “We were social activists rather than filmmakers, doing it by the seat of our pants.”

Their first film, “Growing Up Female,” was completed 50 years ago with a budget of 2,000. It was one of the first documentaries chronicling the modern women’s movement.
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Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning ‘American Factory’ Documentarian, Dies at 76

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning ‘American Factory’ Documentarian, Dies at 76
Julia Reichert, whose 50-year career as a documentarian included a 2020 Oscar win for American Factory, has died after a battle with bladder cancer. She was 76.

Reichert died Thursday night, her frequent collaborator Steven Bognar told The Hollywood Reporter. Despite undergoing chemotherapy ahead of her Oscar triumph, she attended the 2020 Academy Awards and walked to the stage with Bognar to accept their award.

Long regarded as a godmother of the indie film industry, the director, producer and writer also received Oscar nominations for Union Maids (1976), Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983) and The Last Truck: Closing of a Gm Plant (2009).

Her first film, Growing Up Female (1971), was inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry by being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”

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Sundance Leaders on the Challenging Indie Market: ‘It’s Not a Golden Age for Documentaries’

Sundance Leaders on the Challenging Indie Market: ‘It’s Not a Golden Age for Documentaries’
Hard hitting social issue documentaries are getting more difficult to make and sell with each passing year. But despite the market’s fondness for true crime and celebrity-driven nonfiction content, the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program (Dfp) isn’t wavering when it comes to its support of docu filmmakers telling stories dealing with social impact topics including human rights, racial justice, gender equity, democracy, LGBTQ rights, environmental sustainability, freedom of expression, and civic empowerment.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Dfp, which was established by the late Diane Weyermann in October 2002. In the last two decades the Dfp has supported more than 1,000 projects from all over the world via the fund and/or its Edit, Story, and Producers labs. Docus that have received financial and instructional support from the Dfp include Garrett Bradley’s “Time,” Roger Ross Williams’ “God Loves Uganda,” Kirsten Johnson’s “Cameraperson,” Bing Liu’s “Minding the Gap,
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Peabody Nominations Include ‘Summer Of Soul’, ‘Reservation Dogs’, ‘Colin In Black & White’, ‘Dopesick’, ‘Hacks’

Peabody Nominations Include ‘Summer Of Soul’, ‘Reservation Dogs’, ‘Colin In Black & White’, ‘Dopesick’, ‘Hacks’
Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul, Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick’s Colin in Black & White and impactful TV series from Reservation Dogs and Yellowjackets to Hacks, Only Murders in the Building, Dopesick, The Wonder Years and The Underground Railroad are among the 60 nominees revealed Tuesday for the 82nd annual Peabody Awards.

The awards will honor the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2021. More than 1,200 entries were submitted across the fields of TV, podcasts/radio and the web in the categories of entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, and public service.

A total of 30 winners will be unveiled across a series of virtual announcements June 6-9.

PBS leads all platforms this year with 13 nominations, followed by HBO with eight noms, and Hulu and Netflix with five apiece. The nominees list includes 19 documentaries, including fellow Oscar nominees Attica and The Queen of Basketball. In the news categories,
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Peabody Awards 2022 Nominees: ‘Dopesick,’ ‘Underground Railroad,’ ‘Yellowjackets,’ Bo Burnham and More

Peabody Awards 2022 Nominees: ‘Dopesick,’ ‘Underground Railroad,’ ‘Yellowjackets,’ Bo Burnham and More
“Dopesick” and “Only Murders in the Building,” “Yellowjackets” and “The Underground Railroad” are among this year’s nominees for the Peabody Awards. Oscar winners, including “Summer of Soul” and “The Queen of Basketball,” and Emmy winners including “Bo Burnham: Inside” and “Hacks,” also landed spots, as did “Colin in Black & White,” “We Are Lady Parts” and “Reservation Dogs.”

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced this year’s nominees for entertainment, documentaries, news, podcast/radio, children’s & youth, public service and arts. A total of 60 nominees were revealed as “an array of stories that poignantly and powerfully help us make sense of the challenges we face as a nation and world,” according to Jeffrey Jones, Peabody Awards executive director.

Once again, PBS led the field with 13 programs qualifiying as finalists, followed by HBO with eight and Hulu and Netflix with five apiece.

A unanimous vote by the Peabody Awards
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‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ ‘Hacks’ Among Peabody Award Nominees

‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ ‘Hacks’ Among Peabody Award Nominees
The 2022 Peabody Awards have officially announced nominations for this year’s honors.

The Entertainment category includes TV series “Hacks,” “Dopesick,” “Pen15,” “Only Murders in the Building,” and “Yellowjackets,” as well as the Netflix comedy special “Bo Burnham: Inside” among the contenders. Meanwhile, the Documentaries segment features “9to5: The Story of a Movement,” HBO Max’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,” and the Oscar-winning short documentary “The Queen of Basketball,” executive produced by Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry.

Meanwhile, Academy Award Best Documentary winner “Summer of Soul…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised” is nominated in a Peabody category of its own, winning the Arts segment automatically.

The 2022 Peabody nominees were chosen by a unanimous vote of 19 jurors from over 1,200 entries from television, podcasts/radio, and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, and public service.

This year’s nominated programs encompass a wide range of pressing issues,
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‘Untitled’ Dave Chappelle Documentary Review: A Movie So Good, You Wish You Could Forget ‘The Closer’

‘Untitled’ Dave Chappelle Documentary Review: A Movie So Good, You Wish You Could Forget ‘The Closer’
Dave Chappelle’s people don’t want anybody to review his new “Untitled” documentary project. That’s a weird call, considering that the film — an impressive account of how the comedian found a way to host live stand-up shows during the jittery first summer of the Covid-19 pandemic, directed by Oscar-winning “American Factory” duo Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar — presents a very different, far more flattering side of Chappelle from the one being raked over the coals since “The Closer” debuted last month on Netflix.

In “Chappelle’s Show,” which debuted in 2003 on Comedy Central and turned the comedian into a household name, he took on tricky race issues, earning cred from fans (and wariness within the industry) when we walked away from a $50 million contract in the middle of season three. As reported at the time, Chappelle felt his audience had gotten too big and worried that some of the satire — specifically,
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Diane Weyermann, Participant Exec and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ EP, Remembered by Film Community

Diane Weyermann, Participant Exec and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ EP, Remembered by Film Community
The passing of documentary film champion and Participant Media executive Diane Weyermann has left a mark on the film community. The Participant chief content officer and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died on Thursday at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer.

Weyermann played a formative role in the documentary space, executive-producing Oscar-winning documentaries such as Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour,” and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s “American Factory.” While at Participant, she oversaw films including “Darfur Now” (2007), Robert Kenner’s “Food, Inc.” (2008), Errol Morris’ “Standard Operating Procedure” (2008), Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence” (2014), Morgan Neville’s “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble” (2015), and Marc Silver’s “3 1/2 Minutes” (2015).

“Diane and I met while I was directing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and I immediately was struck by her creative brilliance,” said Davis Guggenheim in a statement.
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Dave Chappelle’s Latest Netflix Special Doesn’t Cross “The Line On Hate,” Ted Sarandos Says Despite Controversy; Staffer Who Criticized Trans Remarks In ‘The Closer’ Suspended

Dave Chappelle’s Latest Netflix Special Doesn’t Cross “The Line On Hate,” Ted Sarandos Says Despite Controversy; Staffer Who Criticized Trans Remarks In ‘The Closer’ Suspended
A Netflix engineer critical on social media about trans remarks Dave Chappelle made in his controversial stand-up special The Closer has been suspended by the streamer as co-ceo Ted Sarandos declares the company doesn’t believe the GLAAD-slammed special crosses “the line on hate.”

“You should also be aware that some talent may join third parties in asking us to remove the show in the coming days, which we are not going to do,” Sarandos wrote in a memo (read it in full below) that was sent to employees Friday following a top-tier staff meeting.

“I can only assume Ted did this for preemptive damage control if some big names call out the company and Chappelle,” a well-placed individual at the streamer tells Deadline. “It’s all about the optics and the relationships — typical Hollywood.”

Almost simultaneously with Sarandos’ memo going public Monday, staffer Terra Field, who lamented in
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Dave Chappelle Aims To Cancel “Cancel Culture” With “Kindness Conspiracy” At Star-Studded Hollywood Bowl Screening After Controversy Over Latest Netflix Special

Dave Chappelle Aims To Cancel “Cancel Culture” With “Kindness Conspiracy” At Star-Studded Hollywood Bowl Screening After Controversy Over Latest Netflix Special
“If this is what being canceled is about, I love it,” said Dave Chappelle tonight to a cheering and sold-out Hollywood Bowl crowd after a screening of his documentary about the comic summer camp he put on last year in his Ohio hometown.

“I don’t know what to tell you, except I’m a bad motherf*cker,” the suited and sneakered Mark Twain Prize winner added to big laughs from the crowd.

While “cancel culture” took a bruising in a number of comments from Chappelle and others in what was a clear victory lap for the comedian on Thursday, the celebrating man himself was not in a mood to really get in a brawl with anyone — critics or otherwise.

“This is the kindness conspiracy,” Chappelle told the more than 18,000-strong audience.

Taking aim at corporations and the government in some very, very brief remarks, the man raised by an
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Dave Chappelle Closes Out Tribeca Festival With Surprise Concert at Radio City

Dave Chappelle Closes Out Tribeca Festival With Surprise Concert at Radio City
Tribeca Festival, the first in-person film festival in the U.S. since the pandemic, closed out its 20th edition with a tribute to a small town in the midwest.

Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, the Oscar winners behind “American Factory,” took the stage at New York’s iconic Radio City Music Hall to introduce their new documentary to a fully vaccinated and mostly mask-less crowd.

“We live in a small town in Ohio,” Bognar told the nearly 6,000 audience members in attendance. “We have a neighbor. His name is Dave. We seem him at the grocery store.”

That Dave, of course, is Dave Chappelle. As Reichert and Bognar tell it, the comedian appeared on their doorstep about a year ago to see if the directors were interested in documenting his experiment to carefully bring back live events during quarantine.

“I literally just knocked on their door the same way Black
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Dave Chappelle Documentary Packs Radio City Music Hall As Tribeca Festival’s Closing Film

Dave Chappelle Documentary Packs Radio City Music Hall As Tribeca Festival’s Closing Film
The vaccine-mandatory world premiere of Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place reopened Radio City Music Hall Saturday night for the first time since Covid hit.

“I’m so sorry if you lost someone, or lost something during this pandemic,” Chappelle said, taking the stage when the film ended.

“We did what we could,” he said.

One thing he could was a series of comedy shows in a neighbor’s cornfield that drew his friends and colleagues – from Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart and Trevor Noah — and fans to the town he calls home, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The closing night film of the Tribeca Festival was directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, Chappelle’s neighbors, who won an Oscar for American Factory. “I literally knocked on their door,” Chappelle said.

“He’s a neighbor. We see him in the grocery store. He said, ‘I’m going to try something.
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Tribeca Festival Took ‘Film’ Out of Its Name and Captured the Ambiguous State of the Industry

Tribeca Festival Took ‘Film’ Out of Its Name and Captured the Ambiguous State of the Industry
Tribeca may have been the first big in-person film event of 2021, but it wasn’t clear what it told us about the year ahead. From anticipated premieres to lower-profile films, ambiguity loomed large.

The 20th edition launched June 9 with the world premiere in all five boroughs of Jon M. Chu’s movie of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” from relaxed lawn chairs on the Oval in Battery Park to the mask-free 91-year-old United Palace in Washington Heights. Mostly, outdoor venues at The Battery and a reopened Pier 76 at the Hudson River Park were the main attractions during the festival, which offered 56 world premieres out of 66 feature titles. Many of them were also available online, along with shorts, VR offerings, podcasts, and conversations with the likes of Gina Prince-Bythewood and Bradley Cooper and his “Nightmare Alley” director Guillermo del Toro.

Needless to say, movies were only part of the equation,
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Tribeca Festival Took ‘Film’ Out of Its Name and Captured the Ambiguous State of the Industry

Tribeca Festival Took ‘Film’ Out of Its Name and Captured the Ambiguous State of the Industry
Tribeca may have been the first big in-person film event of 2021, but it wasn’t clear what it told us about the year ahead. From anticipated premieres to lower-profile films, ambiguity loomed large.

The 20th edition launched June 9 with the world premiere in all five boroughs of Jon M. Chu’s movie of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” from relaxed lawn chairs on the Oval in Battery Park to the mask-free 91-year-old United Palace in Washington Heights. Mostly, outdoor venues at The Battery and a reopened Pier 76 at the Hudson River Park were the main attractions during the festival, which offered 56 world premieres out of 66 feature titles. Many of them were also available online, along with shorts, VR offerings, podcasts, and conversations with the likes of Gina Prince-Bythewood and Bradley Cooper and his “Nightmare Alley” director Guillermo del Toro.

Needless to say, movies were only part of the equation,
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