Robert Richter Robert Richter's documentaries have been prime time telecasts on PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, TBS, Discovery and on many major overseas television outlets. His work has been honored with many major awards, ranging from three Academy Award nominations for best documentary short to three Dupont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (the "Pulitzer Prize of television journalism"), National Emmies, Peabody and many U.S. and overseas film festival prizes. A New York City native, Richter attended a Telluride Association junior college in California, received a B.A. from Reed College in Oregon and was a member of the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop M.F.A. program where he began his professional career under the aegis of the screenwriter of all the early James Bond films.While on a CBS Foundation News Fellowship at Columbia, where he received an M.A. in Public Law and Government, he joined the Edward R. Murrow- Fred Friendly documentary unit and produced prime time documentaries and news features with Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and other correspondents. He later produced prime time documentaries for ABC with Peter Jennings as correspondent, for NBC with Phil Donahue, and for PBS "Nova" and for other PBS telecasts. Richter was President of the nationwide 5,000 member Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers for ten years and on the International Documentary Association board as their New York representative for seven years. He is a member of the Writers Guild East, Society of Professional Journalists, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Council on International Public Affairs.