BIO

Gina Leibrecht was born to German parents in Portland, Oregon, and has studied the craft of filmmaking her entire life. She received her B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon and currently works and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, editing and producing documentary features and series for domestic and international audiences.

Gina’s work has screened at venues such as the National Geographic in Washington D.C., Film Forum in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, as well as festivals around the world, including the Telluride Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, Berlinale, Viennale, HotDocs, IDFA, and many more. Gina co-directed two feature documentaries with the acclaimed documentarian Les Blank, All In This Tea and How to Smell a Rose. Features and series she has produced and edited have appeared on most major streaming platforms, including Netflix, Amazon, and AppleTV. Films she has edited have won a Northern California Emmy Award, the Golden Gate Award, and a CINE Golden Eagle Award for Excellence in Film and Television. Gina taught a documentary masterclass at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montréal, has served on the documentary jury for the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico, and she sat on the board of directors of Filmmakers Collaborative SF from 2015-2022.