Robert Richter, Consulting Producer

For the past fifty years Bob has been a distinguished and prolific producer, director and writer focusing on making documentaries on the important social issues of our time. He is the winner of three duPont Columbia Journalism Awards, a national Emmy, and has twice been nominated for Academy Award in the Best Documentary short category. He is a member of the Motion Picture Academy’s documentary branch and was president for ten years of the former nationwide 5,000-member Association of Independent and Video Filmmakers. Bob got his start in regional journalism in Portland, OR before embarking on a career at CBS first with the Murrow/Friendly Unit and then with Walter Cronkite.