RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words

Name: RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words
Director: Freida Lee Mock
Released: 2021

Freida Lee Mock 2021

How does a person with three strikes against her rise to the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court? How did this happen despite closed doors and legal and social barriers facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 1950’s? Who made this possible? What personal, social and political forces intersected to make this happen? The film tells the improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job despite graduating at the top of her law school class and making Law Review at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. It reveals both the public and private sides of a resilient, resourceful woman who survived the hostility of the male universe

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Running Time:

89 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Freida Lee Mock

Producers:

Freida Lee Mock

Cinematographers:

Jon Shenk, Erich Roland, Don Lenzer, Rob Rainey

Editors:

M.A. Golan

Production Companies:

Sanders & Mock Productions / American Film Foundation

Festival Participation

AFI DOCS - 2019
Hawaii International Film Festival - 2019
Napa Valley Film Festival - 2019
Miami Jewish Film Festival - 2019
Mill Valley Film Festival - 2020
The Martha's Vineyard Film Festival - 2020

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