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Gina Leibrecht
www.ginaleibrecht.com

Editor / Producer / Director

Gina Leibrecht has been working in film since she received her B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon in 1989. In 1998 she began collaborating with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Les Blank, on several projects, including All In This Tea, which she co-produced, co-directed and edited, and which had its World Premiere at the Berlinale in 2007. She also edited Native Glory under Blank’s direction, a film about the whimsical art collector, Rene di Rosa; and The Maestro Rides Again, for Blank’s DVD “The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists.” Gina also produced and directed an 11-minute piece on Rene di Rosa for San Francisco’s KQED Channel 9. She edited Frank Green’s Counting Sheep, about the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, which aired on KQED’s Truly California series and won a Northern California Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2006; Gina edited Karina Epperlein’s Phoenix Dance, about a dancer who returns to the stage after losing a leg to cancer, which won San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short in 2006, and the Audience Award at the Sydney International Film Festival in 2007. In 2004 she directed and edited the short documentary Little Brothers, which aired on San Francisco’s KRON TV. She also edited Fawn Yacker’s Ugly Ducklings; David L. Brown’s Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown. She most recently completed editing Kevin White’s A Land Between Rivers, a one-hour documentary about the history of California’s Central Valley for PBS, which won a CINE Golden Eagle Award for Excellence in Film and Television in 2007.


Resumé


All In This Tea
Co-Producer / Co-Director / Editor, Flower Films, 2007
Feature documentary about an eccentric American tea importer
who travels to remote regions in China in search of the finest teas in the world.
World Premiere, Berlinale 2007

A Land Between Rivers
Editor, Full Frame Productions, 2006
Director: Kevin White. One-hour Hi-Def documentary about the history of California’s Central Valley. Winner, CINE Golden Eagle Award, 2007.

Intel-Nigeria
Editor, 2006
Three-minute mini documentary about Intel’s introduction of laptop computers to classrooms in Nigeria.

Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown
Editor, David L. Brown Productions, 2006
Director: David Brown. Feature documentary about the life of big wave surfing pioneer Woody Brown. Official Selection, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, 2006.

Phoenix Dance
Editor / Associate Producer, TRANSIT 2100, 2005
Director: Karina Epperlein. Half-hour documentary about dance choreographer Alonzo King's unprecedented pas de deux created for dancer Homer Avila, who had lost his right leg to cancer. Winner, San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short, 2006.

Little Brothers
Director / Editor, 2004
An 8-minute documentary about the Bay Area non-profit organization Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly for fundraising and television broadcast. Aired on San Francisco’s KRON-TV in December 2004.

Maestro Rides Again!
Editor, Flower Films & Video, 2004
Director: Les Blank. Half-hour documentary for Les Blank’s DVD of his film The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists.

Homegrown Bounty
Producer / Director, KQED-TV Channel 9, San Francisco, 2003
Produced 10-minute documentary for KQED series, SPARK, about the Napa, California art collector, Rene di Rosa. Was broadcast April, 2003.

Counting Sheep
Editor, Green TV, 2003
Director: Frank Green. One-hour documentary about a wildlife biologist and lion tracker who work to save the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. Winner, Emmy Award for Best Documentary, 2006.

Reel and references available upon request.


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