Production

Gini Reticker

Gini Reticker is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary producer and director. Reticker directed the widely acclaimed Pray the Devil Back to Hell, and co-created and executive produced multiple seasons of the PBS series Women, War and Peace, directing two of the gripping episodes, The Trials of Spring and Peace Unveiled. A five-time Sundance alum, Reticker is known as a feminist filmmaker whose other work includes the Oscar-nominated short Asylum; Emmy winner Ladies First; and the Emmy-nominated A Decade Under the Influence. Along with Abigail Disney, Reticker founded Fork Films and served as its Chief Creative Officer. She is widely recognized as a champion of women in the documentary field and has executive produced more than twenty award-winning films.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A Decade Under the Influence poster
7.9

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.

A Decade Under the Influence

2003

Buffalo Returns poster
NR

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.

Buffalo Returns

2015

Ladies First poster
NR

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

Ladies First

2004

Asylum poster
8.0

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.

Asylum

2003

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7.0

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

the heart of the matter

1994

Pray the Devil Back to Hell poster
7.1

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.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

2008

The Trials of Spring poster
8.0

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.

The Trials of Spring

2015