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Director: Julia Reichert

A Lion in the House

Directed by Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

A Lion in the House follows the unique stories of five children and their families at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical …

Growing Up Female

Directed by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein

Considered controversial and exhilarating on its release, Growing Up Female examines female socialization through a personal look into the lives …

Growing Up Female / Methadone: An American Way of Dealing / Sparkle

Directed by Julia Reichert

This program features three documentaries by Julia Reichert and collaborators focused on American social systems and the personal response to …

Julia Reichert: My Life in Film + American Factory

Directed by Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

In this unique two-part event, Julia Reichert will present a new artist talk entitled "My Life in Film," a live …

Making Morning Star

Directed by Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Shot in Cincinnati, Making Morning Star presents a behind-the-scenes look at the joys and challenges of developing a new American …

Methadone: An American Way of Dealing

Directed by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein

Methadone: An American Way of Dealing is, unfortunately, a still-relevant film about how the rise in heroin addiction was typically …

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

Directed by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein

Seeing Red tells the forgotten history and adventures of ordinary Americans who joined the Communist Party and the high price …

Sparkle

Directed by Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Sheri “Sparkle” Williams has been a star dancer with the legendary Dayton Contemporary Dance Company for nearly 40 years—a record …

The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant

Directed by Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Two days before Christmas in 2008, the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, shut its doors. Two thousand workers …

Union Maids

Directed by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu

Told through the eyes of three remarkable women, Union Maids opens up one of the great untold stories in our …

Union Maids / The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant / Making Morning Star

Directed by Julia Reichert

This program features three labor films by Julia Reichert and collaborators, focused on diverse areas of American work — housekeeping, …

Work in Progress Screening—9to5: The Story of a Movement

Directed by Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

Most have heard the song “Nine to Five” by the great Dolly Parton or seen the 1980s blockbuster of the …

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.