Jackie Ochs

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Jacki Ochs is an American film maker who has received a NYFA Fellowship, two MacDowell Fellowships, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Most recently she created and produced the award-winning feature documentary Out of My Head about the neurological disease migraine (2018) with director Susanna Styron, and was executive producer and producer on the biographical film Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray (2015), directed by Kristi Zea, which was broadcast on PBS American Masters. She produced the film 9/12: From Chaos to Community, a feature documentary about volunteers at Ground Zero. 9/12 received the Audience award at the Fire Island Film Festival and is featured at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. 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. Some of her award-winning directorial work includes Vietnam: The Secret Agent (Sundance, Special Jury Prize) and Letters Not About Love (SXSW Best Feature Documentary). Jacki is a professor of film video at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY. Articles about Jacki Ochs’ work have appeared in major U.S. 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 since 1976. Jacki is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Documentary Producers Alliance, Film Fatales, and New York Women in Film and Television.