Production

Richard Kane produces, photographs, directs and edits films on the arts as well as science and technology. Currently touring the country is his film "M.C. RICHARDS: The Fire Within" which is receiving exceptional reviews (see www.MCRichardsFilms.com). Also of note was his video "TECHNOLOGY: Renewing the American Dream", projected wide screen by White House and Commerce Department officials at Town Hall meetings throughout the country. Produced, directed and written by Richard Kane, the film is narrated by former President Bill Clinton.

In 1998 Richard completed a series of eight video portraits of third world recipients of micro loans for wide screen projection at the Microcredit Summit and the Women’s Center Annual Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. and for a similar conference at the United Nations. Five of these portraits were winners of the Cine Golden Eagle.

Since 1988 Richard has produced seventeen videos for the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, (the most recent in 2001) presented to U.S. CEOs by Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. These videos feature interviews by Richard with America's most prominent CEOs and presidents. Richard also wrote the keynote address in 2001 for Los Alamos National Bank Chairman Bill Enloe, (a 2001 Baldrige Award winner) for two major conferences on Quality in business.

Richard is a first prize winner of the Telly Awards for a Jamaican resort marketing film and first prize winner at the Cork International Film Festival for his WETA-broadcast documentary, "Tough, Pretty or Smart", a portrait of an Indiana old-time string band whose lives as coal miners and dreamers propels the film to a poignant microcosm of American life. The film went on to compete for an Academy Award.

Selected Projects 1994-2004

2004 Union of Maine Visual Artists/Independent: "Americans Who Tell The Truth"; a six-hour documentary series on democracy based on a series of fifty painted portraits by artist/activist Robert Shetterly who etches into the paintings courageous quotes by these Americans. The series postulates that truth telling is at the core of a successful democracy. In development and production.

2004 Maine Department of Transportion, FIGG Engineering: "Bridging the Penobscot"; videographer for this ongoing video documenting the design process and construction of this astonishingly modern cable-stayed bridge, the first of its kind in Maine

2003 PA, NC, and NY Humanities Councils, Rudolf Steiner Foundation and Institute, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art: "M.C. RICHARDS: The Fire Within”; writer, director, camera, editor of this independent documentary about the American love poet and artist -- for public television

2002-4 Union of Maine Visual Artists, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, Maine PBS : "Olive Pierce: Maine Master," "William Thon: Maine Master," “Alan Magee: Maine Master," "Harold Garde: Maine Master", ongoing series of nine 30-min. portraits of Maine artists

2002-3 Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network: "Art: For Love of Learning"; director/editor; a short advocacy film for art education; 30th anniversary film

2002 Kennedy Center Education Dept: "Living Pictures", co-producer/ director/editor, 77-min. teacher training video for language arts and history

2001 NARAL Pro-Choice America: "Kate Michelman at the Supreme Court"; producer/director streaming video for NARAL website

2001 Los Alamos National Bank Writer/Keynote Addresses for CEO Bill Enloe at Quality New Mexico and San Francisco Quality conference

2001 National Institute of Standards and Technology "Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award", director/camera/editor of these five videos about exemplary American businesses. Communicator Award 2001

1999 John F. Kennedy Center "Words Alive", director/editor teacher training video -- theater for language arts

1998 John F. Kennedy Center: "25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network", director/editor/producer wide screen presentation to this national conference

1998- 1992 Advanced Technology Institute: "STEP -- A Futurevision ... Today"; writer/ director/producer; 4th in a series of videos on this international. design standard for the aerospace industry.

1998-1996 Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Levi Straus Foundation: "Faces of Microcredit"; producer/co-writer/editor eight videos of women recipients of micro-loans; screened at the UN and National Conference of The Women's Center; 1998 Cine Golden Eagle

1996 Office of Technology Policy, U.S Department of Commerce: "TECHNOLOGY: Renewing the American Dream"; producer/director/writer; narrated by former President Bill Clinton

1994 Georgetown University, U.S. Department of Energy: "Fuel Cells"; producer/writer/ director/editor of four videos on fuel cell technology; features interviews by Richard Kane with U.S. Secys of Energy and Transportation.