Many of her films, including 'Growing Up Female' and 'Union Maids,' centered on the women's movement and American labor.
, was inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry by being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” , about a Chinese billionaire who reopens an abandoned GM plant outside Dayton, Ohio, to make car windshields, shows Chinese and American workers working together amid attempts at union-busting and installing robotic technology.
Reichert’s films have screened at Sundance, Telluride, South by Southwest, Hot Docs and other major festivals as well as on HBO and PBS. Many offer a history of American labor and the women’s movement and a radical humanism. Born in Bordertown Township in New Jersey on June 6, 1946, she graduated in 1964 from Bordentown Regional High School. In 1971, faced with few distribution options for films by and about women, Reichert and Jim Klein co-founded New Day Films as a documentary film distribution cooperative. It still operates today.
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