In the News
2016
Absorbing from Collaborators: A Conversation with Gina Leibrecht — Film International, Oct. 2016
Leibrecht Documents the Documentarians— CineSource Magazine, 2016
2015
Gina Leibrecht and Harrod Blank receive Berkeley Film Foundation's Zaentz Media Award of $25,000 for Les Blank: A Quiet Revelation.
How to Smell a Rose is acquired by Kino Lorber for U.S. distribution.
Ricky Leacock at his French Farmhouse — The New York Times, Nicolas Rapold, Aug. 12, 2015
Gina Leibrecht and the Lions of Documentary — Fandor Blog by Michael Fox, Aug. 10, 2015
They Were There — Review of How to Smell a Rose by Jeff Reichert from Reverse Shot, the magazine of the Museum of the Moving Image.
Make it Real: Hanging out with Les Blank and Ricky Leacock — Film Comment, Aug. 2015
Review: How to Smell a Rose — Slant Magazine, Aug. 2014
2013
Cooking with Les — A short memoir of friendship and cooking by Gina Leibrecht Edible East Bay
NEA Awards Gina Leibrecht/Filmmakers Collaborative SF Post-Production Grant
We are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts recommended a $40,000 grant to Filmmakers Collaborative SF to support post-production on Gina Leibrecht and Les Blank’s documentary film collaboration, How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy.