1. In 2014, Acker directed the feature documentary, "REEL HERSTORY: The REAL Story of Reel Women," hosted by Jodie Foster.
20 Facts About Ally Acker
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At age seventeen, Ally Acker became the first woman to obtain a First Class Radiotelephone Operator license through the FCC, enabling the operation of radio transmitters.
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At WOR, Ally Acker worked closely with radio legends Jean Shepherd, Joe Franklin, and Arlene Francis.
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In 1978 Ally Acker directed, produced, shot and edited the 16mm film, Silver Apples of the Moon, which later became a finalist for a Student Academy Award.
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Ally Acker moved to New York in 1980 to pursue filmmaking.
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In 1985, Ally Acker created The Reel Women Trust Foundation to honor untold stories of remarkable women in all fields who are left out traditional history sources.
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Ally Acker began conducting on-camera interviews with the second wave of women film pioneers for The Reel Women Video Archives.
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Ally Acker donated the collection to the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where it is housed for the use of film students and researchers as The Reel Women in Film Collection.
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In 1985, Ally Acker interviewed famed Surrealist artist and writer, Leonora Carrington.
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In 1987, Ally Acker obtained her Masters of Fine Arts in film and poetry from Columbia University.
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Ally Acker's thesis screenplay, The Mathematical Mermaid about the life of Sonya Kovalevsky, was a 1988 finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, administered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Ally Acker's poetry has appeared in numerous journals including, The Sun, Ploughshares, The American Voice, Southwest Review, South Dakota Review, Antioch Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Poetry Kanto among others.
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Ally Acker has received The Chester H Jones Foundation Award for Poetry and The Carl Sandburg Centennial Award.
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In 2012, Ally Acker vastly updated and expanded her 1990 Reel Women work now used in Universities worldwide, into a two volume series, Reel Women: The First Hundred Years, Volume One, and Volume Two.
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In 2014, culled from the rich interviews gathered for The Reel Women Video Archives, Ally Acker directed, co-wrote, and edited a three part feature film, Reel Herstory: The REAL Story of Reel Women, hosted by Jodie Foster, and produced by Sam Pollard, and Robert Dassanowsky.
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Ally Acker's work is anthologized in Notable American Women by Susan Ware.
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Ally Acker serves on the editorial board of Poetry Salzburg Review, published at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
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Ally Acker has traveled as a film herstory lecturer to universities and film festivals nationwide.
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Ally Acker has appeared as a herstory film scholar on The Ron Reagan Show, The Joe Franklin Show, E Mysteries and Scandals.
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In 2015, Ally Acker appeared in The Women Who Run Hollywood, a feature documentary directed by the prolific French filmmakers, Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg of Wichita Films, Paris.