producer / director / editor

documentary / corporate / non-profit

Gina Leibrecht has been working in film since she received her B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon in 1989. She currently works and resides in San Francisco, working on documentary, commercial, and corporate projects for domestic and international markets.

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 Berlin International Film Festival in 2007.

Among other highlights are Little Brothers, a short documentary which she directed and edited and which aired on San Francisco’s KRON TV; Gina also 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; 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 made the short list of Academy Award Nominations for Best Short Subject Documentary in 2006; and 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.

Since 2006 Gina has worked with several Bay Area production companies, editing for clients including Intel, Symantec, Sybase, Ebay, and many others.

She is currently working with Les Blank on a documentary about the life and work of Butch Anthony, a self-taught artist in Seale, Alabama, as well as producing and directing a feature documentary on Les Blank himself!