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.