A Lion in the House

Ohio-based Julia Reichert was a four-time Academy Award nominee and Oscar winner for her documentary work. Julia’s student film at Antioch College, Growing Up Female, was the first feature documentary of the modern Women’s Movement. It was selected for the National Film Registry. Her film A Lion in the House (made with Steven Bognar) premiered at Sundance, screened nationally on PBS, and won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. Reichert and Bognar won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Documentary for American Factory.

Steven Bognar is an Oscar and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Ohio. With his partner Julia Reichert, he has directed and produced AMERICAN FACTORY (2020 Academy Award winner), THE LAST TRUCK (2009 Academy Award Short nominee), and A LION IN THE HOUSE (Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking). Their films have screened at top film festivals, and on HBO, PBS and Netflix. Bognar’s first feature documentary, PERSONAL BELONGINGS, which he produced, directed & edited, premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, and screened that year at SXSW, IDFA and on P.O.V. His short films include LAST REEL (Telluride Film Festival premiere), FOUNDRY NIGHT SHIFT (True/False Film Festival premiere), NO GUNS FOR CHRISTMAS (New York Times Op-Doc) and PICTURE DAY (Sundance Film Festival premiere). He is a former Professor of Motion Pictures at Wright State University, and has guest lectured at Harvard, Yale & Stanford universities. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.