2020 Commencement Address by Julia Reichert '70

Filmmaker and alumna Julia Reichert is the 2020 Commencement speaker.

Julia Reichert has, for 50 years, been an active member and builder of the American documentary filmmaking community. Her films have screened in major film festivals worldwide, including Sundance, New York, Telluride, Cannes and Rotterdam. She designed her own major at Antioch— combining classes and practicum from the education program with course and projects in film, photography, and radio—and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970.

Julia’s student film, Growing Up Female, was the first feature documentary of the modern Women’s Movement causing controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to build the Movement and to help explain feminism to a skeptical society. It was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Her films Union Maids and Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (with Jim Klein ’72) were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary, as was The Last Truck, for Best Documentary (Short Subject).

Her film A Lion in the House, made with Steven Bognar, won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. They won the 2020 feature documentary Academy Award for American Factory.

Julia is co-founder of New Day Films, a worker-owned independent film distribution co-op. She is author of Doing It Yourself, the first book on self-distribution in indie film.

Julia has dedicated her career to capturing stories that explore class, gender, and race in America.

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