Gini Reticker

In the Service of the Film

The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp, frequent collaborators of Jonhson’s whose work is featured in CAMERAPERSON. It was produced in 2016.

Release Date2017-02-07

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Cameraperson

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

Release Date2016-09-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count86

Love the Sinner

A short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Release Date2017-04-20

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Vote Count3

Hot Girls Wanted

A first-ever look at the realities of the professional “amateur” porn world and the steady stream of 18-to-19-year old girls entering into it.

Release Date2015-01-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count687

Liyana

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Release Date2017-07-15

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Vote Count6

Netizens

Cynthia Lowen’s powerful documentary Netizens highlights three women as each wages war against one of the internet’s most malevolent forces: prevalent and un-policed misogyny, harassment, and stalking. Directed at thousands of women daily by way of social media, it lies in plain sight, and its ramifications never remain only online. The film deftly depicts not only the forms digital abuse can take, from non-consensual pornography to invasion of privacy, but also the consequences for its victims.

Release Date2018-04-22

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JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

Roll Red Roll

At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team. The aftermath exposed an entire culture of complicity—and Roll Red Roll maps out the roles that peer pressure, denial, sports machismo, and social media each played in the tragedy.

Release Date2019-03-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count62

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.

Release Date2008-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Asylum

Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a different man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom in his tribe. She is forced to flee her father's village, seeking refugee status in the U.S. Instead she becomes enmeshed in the U.S. immigration system.

Release Date2003-03-09

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JobProducer

The Armor of Light

Following the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life.

Release Date2015-04-18

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count17

Ladies First

In the new Rwanda, women are at the forefront of change; transforming the country from the ground up and planning for a peaceful future.

Release Date2004-07-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Call Her Ganda

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Release Date2018-04-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count14

Women in Blue

Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more inclusive. When the killing of Justine Damond results in the resignation of Chief Harteau, it threatens the gains women have made in the department.

Release Date2021-02-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

The Trials of Spring

When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.

Release Date2015-06-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

When God Sleeps

Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his song speaking out against human rights abuses resulted in a fatwa being issued.

Release Date2017-04-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count9

She's Beautiful When She's Angry

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

Release Date2014-12-05

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count52

Buffalo Returns

Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national distribution, it gives new hope to a struggling community.

Release Date2015-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Decade Under the Influence

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.

Release Date2003-04-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count40

Women, War & Peace

What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions were at the heart of this critically acclaimed five-part special series.

Release Date2011-10-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Missing in Brooks County

Missing in Brooks County follows the journey of two families who have come to Brooks County to look for their loved ones who went missing. As they search for answers, they encounter a haunted land where death is a part of everyday life. A gripping documentary mystery, it is also a deeply humane portrait of the law enforcement agents, human rights workers, and activists who come face to face with the life and death consequences of a broken system.

Release Date2021-08-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

Naila and the Uprising

The remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, who played a key role in the Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada (1987).

Release Date2017-11-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3

Women, War & Peace II

In a year when women are mobilizing and running for office in unprecedented numbers, see how some of the biggest international stories of recent memory are shaped by women. An all-female cast of directors present four never-before-told stories about the women who risked their lives for peace, changing history in the process.

Release Date2019-03-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

A High School Rape Goes Viral: Roll Red Roll

This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Like many small towns across the country, Steubenville, nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio, lives and dies by its high school football team. So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a pre-season football party in 2012, no one came forward with information. True-crime blogger Alex Goddard set out to uncover the truth, piecing together the details of the crime through cell phone footage and photos that made their way to YouTube, as well as a nearly minute-by-minute account of events on social media. In the process, she uncovered both the perpetrators and the entire culture of complicity that enabled them. The ensuing trial, which made national headlines, cut to the very heart of nationwide debates about rape culture.

Release Date2019-06-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Heart of the Matter

A early 1990s documentary that examines the AIDS epidemic and its effects on women.

Release Date1994-07-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector