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Robert Richter (born October 23, 1929) is an American documentary filmmaker . He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short .[1] [2]
Early life and education
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After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School , young Robert headed west to California’s Occidental College [3] Telluride Association experimental program, then to Reed College ,[4] [5] Iowa Writers' Workshop .
Professional life
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After the Iowa Writers Workshop, Richter joined Oregon Public Broadcasting initially as a producer-reporter, then Director of Public Affairs programs.[6] The New York Times . A CBS News Fellowship brought him back to New York where he earned an M.A. in Public Law and Government at Columbia University in 1964.[7] [8]
After he left CBS in 1968 to become an independent filmmaker, his company, Richter Productions, Inc. made more than 50 documentaries telecast in prime time on HBO, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, Discovery, BBC and major overseas television outlets.[9]
Awards
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Few documentary filmmakers have received as many honors: the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences nominated two Richter films for best documentary short;[1] [2] [10] [11] United Nations Environment Programme —the only independent producer in the world to receive this honor.
Selected filmography
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HHH: What Manner of Man (1968)
Linus Pauling, Crusading Scientist (1977)
Vietnam: An American Journey (1979)
For Export Only: Pesticides (1980)
For Export Only: Pharmaceuticals (1980)
A Plague on our Children (1980)
What Price Clean Air? (1982)
Gods of Metal
In Our Hands (1984)
Hungry for Profit (1985)
The Age of Intelligent Machines (1986)
Who Shot President Kennedy? (1988)
Can Tropical Rainforests Be Saved? (1991)
The Money Lenders (1991)
School of the Americas Assassins
Ben Spock, Baby Doctor (1996)
Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins (1997)
References
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^ "Robert Richter '50 to Screen "In Our Hands" | Occidental College | The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles" . www.oxy.edu . Retrieved September 2, 2015 .
^ "Reed Magazine: Alumni Profiles" . www.reed.edu . Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
^ "COLLEGE APOLOGIZES TO PROFESSOR FOR 1954 DISMISSAL" . The New York Times . May 31, 1981. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
^ " . oshmuseum.org . December 3, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
^ "Alumni Profiles: Richter '64MA and Ferrerosa Young '18PhD | Political Science" . polisci.columbia.edu . Retrieved May 16, 2022 .
^ Bulldozed America , retrieved September 3, 2015
^ www.sadhana.sk, Sadhana -. "Richter Videos" . www.richtervideos.com . Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
^ "All duPont-Columbia Award Winners - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism" . www.journalism.columbia.edu . Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
^ "Robert Richter" . Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
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