Richard specializes in videos on history & politics. He also enjoys finding & posting public domain archival films to the Nerds Make Media Youtube channel. Richard departed C-SPAN in 2021 after 30 years at the public affairs network to concentrate on independent films. Richard also dabbles in painting & drawing & song writing.
Curator of the Nerds Make Media YouTube channel
Director & Co-Producer of, The World We Wanted, American Feud, Confounding Father, and many other shorts films.
Curator & presenter of “Vintage Movie Night” screenings of shorts & clips from archival classroom & ephemeral films
Conceived & produced the weekly C-SPAN archival film series Reel America® (2014-2021)
Produced, shot & edited the C-SPAN American Artifacts series which visits museums & historic places. (approx. 200 episodes from 2010-2021)
Interviewed numerous authors, journalists, politicians & many others for broadcast on C-SPAN
Co-facilitated the Docs in Progress/Women in Film and Video Roundtable from 2012 to 2023