about the filmmaker
Filmmaker-photographer-writer Roger M. Richards' work has ranged from coverage of the White House in Washington, DC to conflict zones around the world, including the US invasion of Panama, political upheaval in Haiti, civil war in Croatia and the siege of Sarajevo.
Roger M. Richards is the recipient of numerous awards from the National Press Photographers’ Association, the White House News Photographers’ Association, Pictures of the Year International, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Virginia News Photographers Association. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1990 and 2008.
Richards was Senior Producer with The Drew Carey Project at ReasonTV from December 2007 to November 2009. Prior to that he was Multimedia Editor/Producer for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia from 2001 to 2007. He is a former Associated Press photo bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia, and a staff photographer at the Washington Times in Washington, DC, from 1997-2000.
FILMOGRAPHY
2009-‘Reason Saves Cleveland’ (52 minutes) Cinematographer and Editor (Narrated by Drew Carey).
2008-‘The Wall: The Cost of Securing our Southern Border’ (10 min 44 sec) Co-Producer/Co-Director-Cinematographer-Editor (Narrated by Drew Carey).
2008-‘Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye’ (25 min.) Co-Producer/Co-Director-Cinematographer-Editor (Narrated by Drew Carey).
2007-‘My Favorite Child’ (14 minutes) Director-Cinematographer-Editor.
2007-‘Out of the Darkness of Suicide’ A series of 4 short films on the stigma and trauma of suicide on surviving family members. (Producer-Cinematographer-Editor).
2002-‘A Navy Family’ (6 minutes) Director-Cinematographer-Editor.
2000-‘Seven Lilies’ (9 minutes) Director-Cinematographer-Editor.
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