Producing & Directing

As a producer and director, I tend to wear many hats on any given project. The clips you’ll see above are from projects I have produced and directed, and many of them I have written, shot, and edited as well.

That is not to say I’ve done everything myself. Filmmaking is a team sport, and much of my work I created while employed by different production companies or working for a wide variety of clients and productions where I had access to resources and personnel that made my vision a reality. I have worked with some incredibly resourceful, creative geniuses, production companies, and producers, and have created these projects with the help of some of the most talented, skilled, and overall spectacular (and good-looking!) crew members in the industry.

Hi, I’m Rich.

I’m an award-winning director, executive producer, and writer devoted to making an impact and getting results with my work. Broadcast commercials. Branded content. Social campaigns. Narrative. Feature Film. Documentary. Even VR & Augment Reality. I’ve written 300-page novels and 3-second TV promos.

I’m also an editor, photographer, cinematographer, novelist, and even sometimes mograph artist. But let’s not muddy the waters–I direct. I produce.

My work has won over 75 industry awards, reached millions of viewers, and made thousands of clients happy. I thrive on creating ideas, crafting visuals, and reaching audiences in powerful ways.

I’ve served a wide variety of clients from US military branches to universities, non-profits to Fortune-500s, marketing directors to agency executives. But it’s not just about client work. I’m a fierce proponent of the local film community with a terminal case of FOMO for independent narrative projects. I’m passionate about helping, learning, and teaching the art, craft, and business of filmmaking.

When not working, you’ll find me traveling, skiing, refining my sand-sculpting skills, making bad puns, or searching for the inspiration for my next novel. 

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Storytelling doesn’t just happen on set or in a book. Video editing is perhaps one of the more invisible–and yet more important–aspects of storytelling. For me, it’s not just about putting one shot in front of the other and slapping some music under it. There’s an art to it, a stylistic expression to editing that I try to take with me into even the driest, most challenging of edits. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I have always thought of editing as visual poetry. You can’t always mechanically explain why it works, but you can feel it when it does.

In post production, I am an expert Premiere editor, a Final Cut Pro editor (6, 7, and X), and quite handy with After Effects, Photoshop, and other Adobe Creative Cloud programs. I even know my way around Excel.

I am also a photographer and an author. Anything I can do to tell better stories, I try to get into.

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