Ally Acker

New York filmmaker, Ally Acker is the author of "Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema," the ground-breaking herstory of the women who changed the course of cinema since its inception. The book was updated and expanded to become the two volume edition: Reel Women: The First Hundred Years. Based on Reel Women, Acker directed ten documentaries, "Filmmakers on Film," featuring interviews with Hollywood's most influential filmmakers. She is also the director of "The Flowering of the Crone: Leonora Carrington, Another Reality", the only portrait of the great surrealist painter/writer condoned by the artist during her life, and produced in the United States. Ally Acker is a former writer/field producer of NBC's Today Show. She is also the author of three books of poems. Acker holds an MFA in film from Columbia University.