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Gini Reticker

Réalisateur/trice, Producteur/trice, Monteur/se, Co-producteur/trice
États-Unis
Site web : www.forkfilms.net

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Réalisatrice, productrice et monteuse américaine.

Gini Reticker a commencé sa carrière comme monteuse sur de célèbres documentaires tels que Roger & Me de Michael Moore ou Fire From the Mountain (nominé au Emmy Award) de Deborah Shaffer et The Awful Truth: The Romantic Comedy, pour les American Cinema Series de la chaîne de télé PBS (Usa).

English

Gini Reticker (Director) is one of the world’s leading documentary filmmakers whose primary focus is on individuals, particularly women, engaged in struggles for social justice and human rights. Her films cover subjects often overlooked by mainstream media, such as women in war zones whose stories have largely gone untold. Her filmmaking has taken her to conflict zones around the globe, including Liberia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan.

Ms. Reticker is Series Producer and Director on a groundbreaking five-part miniseries, « Women, War & Peace » for PBS’s Wide Angle, now in production and slated for broadcast in 2011. The series challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are solely the domains of men, examining how war affects women and highlighting their efforts to bring about peace. Previously, Ms. Reticker directed the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Produced by Abigail E. Disney, the film presents the story of Liberian women who overcame barriers of gender and politics to end their country’s century-long civil war. « If you don’t tell the story, then it’s not history; it just totally evaporates, » Ms. Reticker said of this film-a statement that aptly describes her work as a whole.

Ms. Reticker currently sits on the board of Peace Is Loud, an organization launched from the groundswell of interest in Pray the Devil Back to Hell that supports female voices and international peace-building through nonviolent means.

Ms. Reticker produced Asylum, a 2004 Academy Award®-nominated short focusing on the story of a Ghanaian woman who fled female genital mutilation to seek political asylum in the U.S. She was also the producer/co-director of Heart of the Matter, the first full-length documentary about the impact of HIV on women in the U.S. The film won a Sundance Award in 1994. She produced and directed the 2005 Emmy Award-winning documentary Ladies First for the PBS series Wide Angle, which focuses on the role of women in rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda. For Wide Angle she also directed The Class of 2006, which told the story of the first fifty women in Morocco to graduate from an imam academy in Rabat.

Reticker’s other credits include:
Producer: A Decade Under the Influence, a look at the heyday of 1970s filmmakers, winner of a National Review Board Award and an Emmy nomination for Best Documentary;
Director: In the Company of Women, IFC’s spotlight on women in Hollywood;
Co-Producer: The Betrayal, Nerakhoon, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phravasath’s brilliant portrayal of a Laotian refugee family’s epic tale of survival and resilience, 2009 nominee for both an Academy Award® and Independent Spirit Award;
Executive Producer: Live Nude Girls Unite, Julia Query and Vicki Funari’s raucous look at the successful union organizing efforts of San Francisco-based strippers.

Reticker started her career as an editor on renowned documentaries such as Michael Moore’s Roger & Me; Deborah Shaffer’s Emmy-nominated Fire From the Mountain; and The Awful Truth: The Romantic Comedy, for the PBS American Cinema Series.
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