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, Women, War & Peace
PAMELA HOGAN has been at the forefront of making PBS’s international documentary series WIDE ANGLE a standard setter in the coverage of global women’s issues throughout its eight seasons on the air. Hogan takes that lead further by spearheading Women, War & Peace, WIDE ANGLE’s first thematic limited series. A senior member of the WIDE ANGLE team since its inception in 2002, Hogan has overseen 70 hours of documentaries in 50 countries, and has originated such films as Time for School (Overseas Press Club Citation, Gabriel Award, IDA Nominee), spotlighting the global education crisis through 7 children in 7 countries; and Emmy winner/Sigma Delta Chi Best Documentary Winner Ladies First, about Rwandan women’s leadership 10 years after the genocide. Previously Hogan oversaw all international co-productions at National Geographic Television. Her other credits include: Senior Producer, Bill Moyers: Earth on Edge; Director/Co-Producer (with Harvard historian Peter Galison), Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma (History Channel); and Field Producer for the Peabody Award-winning To Be An American (NBC). She has been a judge, panelist, and speaker at Harvard’s Askwith Forum, Brown’s Watson Institute, the Asia Society, USAID, Wildscreen, ITVS’s International Call, and Docuclub NY. With Connie Shulman, Hogan recently completed an independent documentary, Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury, about the mother of two young children who is grappling with premature dementia.