Ally Acker
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
New York filmmaker, Ally Acker is the author of "Reel Women: Pioneers
of the Cinema," the ground-breaking herstory of the women who changed
the course of cinema since its inception. The book was updated and
expanded to become the two volume edition: Reel Women: The First
Hundred Years. Based on Reel Women, Acker directed ten documentaries,
"Filmmakers on Film," featuring interviews with Hollywood's most
influential filmmakers. She is also the director of "The Flowering of
the Crone: Leonora Carrington, Another Reality", the only portrait of
the great surrealist painter/writer condoned by the artist during her
life, and produced in the United States. Ally Acker is a former
writer/field producer of NBC's Today Show. She is also the author of
three books of poems. Acker holds an MFA in film from Columbia
University.
