Julia Bell Reichert was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a director and producer of documentaries. Reichert was a four-time Academy Award-nominated director, for Union Maids, Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant and American Factory.