Gina Leibrecht, Editor/Director Gina Leibrecht has been working in film since she received her B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon in 1989. She currently works and resides in San Francisco, working on documentary, commercial, and corporate projects for domestic and international markets. In 1998 she began collaborating with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Les Blank, on several projects, including All In This Tea, which she co-produced, co-directed and edited, and which had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007. She also edited Native Glory under Blank's direction, a film about the whimsical art collector, Rene di Rosa; and The Maestro Rides Again, for Blank's DVD The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists. Gina also produced and directed an 11-minute piece on Rene di Rosa for San Francisco's KQED Channel 9. In 2004 she directed and edited the short documentary Little Brothers, which aired on San Francisco'’Äôs KRON TV. Gina also edited Frank Green's Counting Sheep, about the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, which aired on KQED's Truly California series and won a Northern California Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2006. She edited Karina Epperlein's Phoenix Dance, about a dancer who returns to the stage after losing a leg to cancer, which won San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short in 2006 and made the short list of Academy Award Nominations for Best Short Subject Documentary in 2006. She also edited Fawn Yacker's Ugly Ducklings; David L. Brown' Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown; Larry Reed's DVD series Explorations of the Shadow World; and Kevin White's A Land Between Rivers, a one-hour documentary about the history of California's Central Valley for PBS, which won a CINE Golden Eagle Award for Excellence in Film and Television. She is currently working on a documentary with Les Blank about the life of Butch Anthony, a self-taught artist living in Seale, Alabama. >PARTNERS