He went to high school in Fort Worth, Texas and attended West Point for a year before dropping out with the aim of playing professional baseball.
[6] Reinert's first story for Texas Monthly (So Long, Cosmic Cowboys, March 1973) was a nostalgic take on the heyday of NASA's human lunar landing Apollo program.
[6] Other notable stories for the Texas-based magazine were Closing Down La Grange, a tribute to the Chicken Ranch, the "Oldest Continually Operating Non-Floating Whorehouse in the United States;"[7] Billy Lee, an ode to the brilliant, but drug-addicted, political writer and staffer Billy Lee Brammer;[8] and The Secret World of Walter Cronkite, a day in the life of "the most trusted man in America.
To scale up the space agency's images, Reinert had to use an optical printer to scan each individual frame of the original 16mm film and enlarge it to 35mm.
Brian Eno was commissioned to provide a soundtrack, which was combined with sound bites from the astronauts in a narration-free film.
New York Post critic David Edelstein wrote, "It amounts to an ode to space travel, and it's awesomely beautiful."
In 1996, the film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay, but Broyles' and Reinert's effort lost to Emma Thompson's work on Sense and Sensibility.
[14] During this time frame, Reinert also traveled to Japan, where he co-wrote the screenplay for the video game-to-film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
[3] Tired of Los Angeles' "dehumanizing" film industry,[13] Reinert sought a project that would take him back to Texas.
The 2013 film, An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, told the tale of the wrongful conviction of a Williamson County man charged with murdering his wife.
It shows various locations in Audubon's life and interviews experts about his contributions to ornithology and the impact his art had on how nature was viewed.
A sponsored project of the International Documentary Association, the yet-to-be-finished film is described as a "profound example of human cooperation...circling our planet every day.