Gini Reticker

Chief Creative Officer of Fork Films, Gini Reticker is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director and producer with a distinguished career that spans more than 20 years. Reticker helmed The Trials of Spring, chronicling a young woman's journey from an Egyptian village to becoming an international human rights activist. Its release was part of a multi-media project which included six short films launching online on The New York Times. Concurrently, she executive produced the 2017 Emmy-nominated The Armor of Light. Reticker directed the widely acclaimed Pray the Devil Back to Hell, an inspiring story of Liberian women whose actions helped bring an end to a brutal civil war. She received an Academy Award nomination for producing the short film Asylum, recounting one woman's journey to political asylum in the U.S. The same year she was nominated for an Emmy for A Decade Under the Influence, a look at the heyday of 1970s filmmakers, which garnered the National Review Board's Award for Best Documentary. Her first film The Heart of the Matter, a groundbreaking film about women and AIDS, won the Sundance Film Festival's Freedom of Expression Award. Reticker also garnered an Emmy for Ladies First, the story of women rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda. She was a creator and executive producer of the PBS series Women, War & Peace, recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Edward R. Murrow Award as well as The Academy of Television Honors Award. Reticker co-produced The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) - nominated for both an Academy Award and an Independent Spirit Award. She served as Executive Producer on numerous Fork Films supported projects including the renowned Cameraperson; the Netflix original Hot Girls Wanted; 1971; Citizen Koch; Alias Ruby Blade and She's Beautiful When She's Angry