Ally Acker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ally Acker
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1954(1954-08-17)
Age	70
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Ally Acker Biography

Ally Acker is one of the most popular and richest Filmmaker who was born on August 17, 1954 in New York, United States.

After graduating from Northwestern University in 1976, Acker made the foray into television as a video editor for WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate station in Washington, D.C. From 1977 to 1980, Acker also worked as a freelance radio producer for the Feminist Radio Network, where she interviewed Alice Walker, who had just completed her second novel, Meridian. The interview later aired on National Public Radio.

In 1978 Acker directed, produced, shot and edited the 16mm film, Silver Apples of the Moon, which later became a finalist for a Student Academy Award. She moved to New York in 1980 to pursue filmmaking. Her first job in New York was at Valkhan Films where she worked as assistant to film editor Sam Pollard. A year later, she was hired by NBC network as a video editor for The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News. Only a few months after that hire, Acker was recruited by The Today Show as a producer/writer, becoming the first technician to cross over into producing/writing at NBC in New York. Acker’s first network produced stories featured hosts Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw.

Ally Acker (born August 17, 1954, New York) is an American filmmaker, poet, author, and film herstorian. Her book, Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, originally published in 1990, was the first on the market to reveal the entrepreneurial, and transformative roles that women played in all aspects of the film industry since its inception. Reel Women was optioned in 1995 for one of the first interactive CD-ROMs ever released, Reel Women: The Untold Story.

Ally Acker Net Worth

Ally is one of the richest Filmmaker from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ally Acker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

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In 2012, 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 (Foreword by Judith Crist), and Volume Two (Foreword by Jeanine Basinger). Both volumes include an Afterword by Marc Wanamaker. All photos included in Acker’s Reel Women films and books are from Wanamaker’s famed Bison Archives.

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Ally Ranked on the list of most popular Filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ally Acker celebrates birthday on August 17 of every year.

Acker’s writing has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Calyx, The Lesbian Review of Books and Sojourner. Her work is also anthologized in Notable American Women by Susan Ware. She serves on the editorial board of Poetry Salzburg Review, published at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Acker has traveled as a film herstory lecturer to universities and film festivals nationwide. She has appeared as a herstory film scholar on The Ron Reagan Show, The Joe Franklin Show, E Mysteries and Scandals (speaking about film pioneer, Dorothy Arzner). Reel Women was also the focus of a three part series on National Public Radio. In 2015, 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.