Films by Filmmaker

Jacki Ochs

Jacki Ochs' film career highlights include her feature documentary Vietnam: The Secret Agent, about the chemical Agent Orange, which received numerous awards including the John Grierson Award for Best New Director at the American Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. It premiered at the New York Film Festival, Mannheim Film Festival, Germany and Cinema du Reel, Paris, and received a Certificate of Merit from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. 

Her film Letters Not About Love, based on a Russian and American correspondence between two poets, received Best Documentary Feature from the SXSW Film Festival and the Dziga Vertov Visionary Artist Award from the Huntington International Independent Film Festival, among others.  It was a selected feature at INPUT '99, XXII International Public Television Screening Conference.

Jacki produced the award winning film 9/12: From Chaos to Community a feature documentary about volunteers at Ground Zero.  She was Executive Producer of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, which was released theatrically nationwide to great acclaim, and received the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression award. 

Articles about Jacki’s work have appeared in major US news and film publications including the New York Times, LA Times, Plain Dealer, Film Comment, Cineaste, International Documentary Magazine and many others. She has been Executive Director of the Human Arts Association, a not for profit arts foundation which sponsors documentary media, since 1976.

Jacki has received a NYFA Fellowship, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.  She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in New York.