Photo Credit: Gregg Kessler

Gini Reticker
Series Producer, Women, War & Peace
Gini Reticker is an Emmy-winning, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and one of the world’s leading filmmakers on women’s issues. Most recently, Reticker directed Pray the Devil Back to Hell, about the role women played in bringing peace to Liberia after 14 years of civil war. The film won the Best Documentary Prize at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, the Silverdocs Witness Award, the Jackson Hole Audience Award, and has been short-listed for the Academy Award. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it “eloquently captures the power each of us innately has within our souls to make this world a far better, safer, more peaceful place.”

Reticker has directed two films for WIDE ANGLE, the Emmy Award-winning Ladies First, which focused on the role of women in rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda, and Class of 2006, about the first fifty women in Morocco to graduate from an imam academy in Rabat. Her first film, The Heart of the Matter received the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award; Out of the Darkness: Women and Depression garnered both an Emmy and a Gracie Award. She produced the Academy Award-nominated short Asylum, and the Emmy nominated A Decade Under The Influence. Before becoming a producer and director, Reticker worked as an editor on films including: Roger & Me; The Awful Truth: The Romantic Comedy, PBS American Cinema Series; and the Emmy-nominated Fire From the Mountain.

Photo Credit: Gregg Kessler

Abigail E. Disney
Series Producer, Women, War & Peace
Abigail Disney is the producer of the Oscar-shortlisted Pray the Devil Back to Hell. She is also a philanthropist, business woman, and community activist who has a long history of work in support of women’s leadership and peace building internationally. Disney is the founder and the president of the Daphne Foundation, a progressive, social change foundation that makes grants to grassroots, community-based organizations working with low-income communities in New York City. She recently retired as chair of The New York Women’s Foundation, of which she was a board member for over 14 years. Abigail serves on the boards of the Roy Disney Family Foundation, the White House Project, the Global Fund for Women, and the Fund for the City of New York, as well as the advisory boards of a broad range of organizations working in the areas of poverty, women’s issues, education and environment. When the groundbreaking periodical Ms. Magazine was in danger of extinction, she worked with Gloria Steinem and a group of other passionate investors to form Liberty Media for Women to secure the fate of Ms. Magazine for future generations. Abigail also acts as Vice Chair of the board of Shamrock Holdings Incorporated, a professional investment company.

Pamela Hogan
Executive Producer, WIDE ANGLE Specials
Executive Producer Pamela Hogan has been with WIDE ANGLE, the primetime PBS global documentary series called “unerringly first class” by the Wall Street Journal since its inception in 2002. Series Producer for the program’s first 6 seasons on the air, in addition to overseeing 60+ hours of documentaries in 50+ countries, Hogan has originated Time for School (Gabriel Award), a 12-year project spotlighting the global education crisis through the stories of seven children in seven countries; and Emmy winner/Sigma Delta Chi Best Documentary Winner Ladies First, about the leadership role of Rwanda’s women ten years after the genocide. A 25-year veteran of television, from 1989-1994 Hogan oversaw all international co-productions at National Geographic Television. Her independent film (with Harvard professor Peter Galison) Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma has been shown on the History Channel and is widely used in universities. She was field producer for the Peabody Award-winning To Be An American (NBC), and has previously produced for Bill Moyers. A member of the Directors Guild of America, she has been a judge, panelist, and speaker at Brown’s Watson Institute, Harvard’s Askwith Forum, the Asia Society, Wildscreen (U.K.), ITVS’s International Call, and Docuclub NY, among others. With Connie Shulman, Hogan has recently completed an independent documentary Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury, about a mother of two young children grappling with progressive dementia.