Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Documentarian, Dead At 76

Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind “American Factory” whose films explored themes of race, class and gender, often in the Midwest, has died. She was 76. She died Thursday night in Ohio from cancer, her family said Friday through a representative. She was diagnosed with stage four urothelial cancer in April 2018. Advertisement Often called the “godmother of American independent documentaries,” Reichart told the stories of ordinary Americans, from autoworkers dealing with both plant closures (2009′s “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”) and foreign investors (2019′s “American Factory”), to members of the American Communist Party (1983′s “Seeing… Read Full Article