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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Film Registry adds Reichert, Klein doc
Dayton filmmakers and Wright State University faculty members Julia Reichert and Jim Klein’s first work, the documentary “Growing Up Female” (1971), is one of just 25 films added to the National Film Registry.
Others selected from more than 2,200 nominees this year included “Bambi,” “Forrest Gump,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Norma Rae” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
Created by an act of Congress in 1988, the registry names 25 motion pictures each year that are deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” and worthy of preservation by the Library of Congress.
Filmed in Ohio in the spring of 1970, “Growing Up Female” profiles six females, ages 4 to 34, examining the limits of their lives and choices in the United States at the dawn of the modern women’s liberation movement.
Reichert was 23. Klein was 20. Both were students at Antioch College. They went on to co-direct feature documentaries “Union Maids” and “Seeing Red,” both of which were nominated for Academy Awards.
Klein also made “Letter to the Next Generation” and “Taken for a Ride,” which screened on the national PBS series “P.O.V.” Reichert co-directed “A Lion in the House,” which won a primetime Emmy Award, and the documentary “The Last Truck,” which was nominated for an Oscar.
Growing Up Female,” which was filmed in black and white on 16mm, launched Reichert and Klein’s independent film cooperative New Day Films, which now includes more than 100 filmmakers across the country.
Other films in the national registry, which Librarian of Congress James H. Billington described as “cinematic treasures,” include “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” For a complete list of 2011 inductees, go to www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-240.html
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