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A Lion in the House  A documentary that follows five families of diverse racial and economic backgrounds through their childrens experience with cancer, exploring what crisis does to a family and the effects of race, class, gender and medical ethics on health care and modern technology.   Accomplishments Reichert has directed and produced both fiction features and documentaries, and teaches filmmaking at Wright State University, Ohio. She co-founded the film distribution co-op New Day Films and Film Fund, the predecessor of Independent Feature Project. Bognars documentaries and short narratives have screened widely at festivals and on television. He has produced feature films, taught media production and received several fellowships. They have collaborated on several films, often as producers, since the mid-1990s.
Festivals: New York; Cannes; Telluride; Edinburgh; Toronto; Lansing; Rotterdam; Montreal; Valladolid (Spain); Leipzig (Germany); Portugal; and Sydney (Australia) Screenings: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Broadcasts: PBS, Spain, Germany, Greece, France, Belgium, Italy and Australia Awards/Honors: two Academy Award Nominations; Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival; Gold Ducat, Mannheim International Film Week; Special Jury Award, San Francisco Film Festival; Artist of the Year, Ohio Arts Council Grants/Residencies: National Endowment for the Arts, 2002; MacDowell Colony, 2001; Ohio Arts Council, 1998; Wexner Center Department of Art and Technology, 1996; Fulbright Fellowship, 1995 Professor, Department of Motion Pictures, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, since 1986 Lecturer: Columbus Writers Conference, 2001; Athens International Film Festival, 1998; Ohio Arts Council Annual Meeting, 1993 Education BA, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio Web Site News April, May, June 2008 Julia Reichert
and Steven Bognar’s
A
Lion in the House was featured in The
Council on Foundations’ 41st Film & Video Festival,
where it was a 2008 Henry Hampton Award winner. Their feature
documentary follows five families of diverse racial and economic
backgrounds whose children are battling cancer. July, August, September 2007 Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s
A Lion in the House was awarded
“Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking” at the
Emmys, in September. They shared this honor with Spike Lee’s When
the Levees Broke (produced by Sam Pollard).
Their feature documentary follows five families of diverse racial and
economic backgrounds whose children are battling cancer. April, May, June 2007 |
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