The documentary community is mourning one of its most treasured artists, filmmaker Julia Reichert. Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar at work on ‘American Factory’ NetflixFor years the Moraine plant sat empty, a symbol of decay in the Rust Belt. Prof. Patricia Aufderheide, a scholar of media and documentary, tweeted, “Julia Reichert has passed on, after 4+ years of cancer. She took us rag tag kids and helped shape us all into filmmakers & storytellers.”On Facebook, former IDA executive director Simon Kilmurry wrote, “Thank you Julia Reichert. It was really a letter from each of them.”I can only echo the words of Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, who tweeted, “Julia Reichert.

Source: New York Times December 04, 2022 00:23 UTC