Julia Reichert

Pioneering filmmaker Julia Reichert, who passed away in 2022, shares the intimate story of her youth, as a working-class girl, and how she began to dream of a larger life for herself, coming to embrace her working-class identity, and discovering feminism, documentary filmmaking, and her own voice. Julia’s partner Steven Bognar edited and completed this short film.

A US factory opened by a Chinese billionaire seemed like a blessing to unemployed workers, until culture clash turns into culture conflict in this Oscar-winning documentary.