NEW DAY FILMS BY
Jacki Ochs:

Letters Not About Love

Producer's Web Site:
www.humanarts.org

Jacki Ochs has been making films since 1976, including works in both experimental and documentary genres. Several films have been broadcast worldwide. Her film, The Secret Agent about the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam War veterans and their families received, among others, the John Grierson Award for Best New Director from the American Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize from the Sundance Film Festival, premieres at the New York Film Festival, Mannheim Film Festival and Cinema du Reel, and a Certificate of Merit from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Some other awards for her work include a NYFA Fellowship, two NYSCA grants, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jazz Summit, Jacki's television program about a Soviet jazz group's first tour to the United States has been broadcast in the United States, Japan, England and the (former) Soviet Union. In addition to her independent work, Jacki has produced and directed television pieces, music videos and commercials. Most recently Jacki was Executive Producer of Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and Producer of 9/12(release dates Fall 2005).

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