Richard De Witt, Principal Partner/ Producer/ Director is a photographer, cinematographer, writer, and film maker. He holds degrees from UCLA film program (1980-1982) and American Film Institute (MA Cinematography, 1988-1989). He began his work in professional film with veteran movie producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1983-1987). He was involved in the script-to-screen process on Round Midnight (1986), Betrayed (1988), and the Music Box (1989), with European film directors Bertrand Tavernier and Costa Gavras (1986). He also worked on Rocky IV (1985) and Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). Rick has written over 10 screenplays and was hired to write a contemporary adaptation based on the Winnetou Trilogy, the top selling books in Germany, by the celebrated writer, Carl May (2012). He completed his internship at AFI with Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winning DP, Jack Green on The Rookie (1990). He has shot feature films, short films, commercials, PSA's, industrial, and documentaries for many companies including Dreamworks SKG (1999). As principal partner of EverWitt Productions, Richard produced and shot My Dad's Garage, the Hotheadz, MacMillan's Haunted Histories, and the animated concept, the Fumppits, with Hanna Barbera's, Bob Singer and J.H. Everett (201-2017). He created concept packages for PBS, Discovery Channel, MacMillan, Scholastic, and Stoopid Buddies Productions (with the help of BJ Guyer - 2017). He is currently in Pre-Production on the New Film Group Productions (2018) and Longbow Studios Indie feature film called, Wilderness. The script is based on the Battle of the Wilderness during the American Civil War and is a character driven Thriller / Black Comedy that will go into production, in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina in May of 2018.