PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (Retro)

Gini Reticker, USA, 2008, 72 min., documentary, English with English subtitles

In Liberia, Christian and Muslim women, led by Leymah Gbowee, unite to end the civil war and pave the way for Africa’s first female president.
Gini Reticker (director)
Gini Reticker is an Emmy-winning, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and producer. She produced the Academy Award nominated short Asylum, and the Emmy nominated A Decade Under The Influence. Directing for the PBS Series Wide Angle, Reticker took home an Emmy and the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Ladies First, which focused on the role of women in rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda. In 2006, Reticker directed The Class of 2006, for Wide Angle, spotlighting the first fifty women in Morocco to graduate from an imam academy in Rabat. Her first film, The Heart of the Matter received the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award; Out of the Darkness: Women and Depression garnered both an Emmy and a Gracie Award. Before becoming a producer and director, Reticker worked as an editor on films including: Roger & Me; The Awful Truth: The Romantic Comedy, PBS American Cinema Series; and the Emmy-nominated Fire From the Mountain.
Tickets: Thu, Oct. 30, 7:15 p.m.
In the presence of: Irene Jung (former film festival director)
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL celebrated its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and was screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The film won numerous awards, including Best Documentary Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Social Justice Award for Documentary Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Cinema for Peace Award for Justice, the Rudolf Vrba Award at the One World International Human Rights Festival in Prague, and the EDA Female Focus Award (Humanitarian Activism Award) from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.