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Richard Kroehling (Director / Screenwriter)

Richard Kroehling is a two-time Emmy Award winning director/producer/screenwriter who has produced over fifty hours of productions for major television networks and festival audiences. Richard directed "Einstein, How I See The World" a feature documentary with William Hurt for PBS "American Masters". The L.A. Times called it "...the most astonishing and poetic compression of grand ideas ever managed...a masterful film portrait. Kroehling enters Einstein's mind with great personal cinematic style." In 1999, Richard directed the award winning "World Without End" in competition at many festivals, critics wrote of the film: "A brilliant movie making style that delivers you into a scorching disturbing world". Richard directed and created many crime TV programs and series including "Taking Vegas", "Inside Pittsburgh Homicide" and the controversial series "Confessions" Richard wrote and directed "2B" his feature fiction film. Set in 2021, and based on his work on renowned futurist, author and director of Google research, Ray Kurzweil's. The film is based on the New York Times best seller, "The Singularity Is Near". Set against the backdrop of emerging new science, the film portrays a familiar rusting world on the cusp of unimaginable wonders and dangers. Critics hailed the film, "This breathtaking film designed to jump-start the conversation about the moral and religious questions raised by the bio-tech revolution. The result is as confronting as it is mesmerizing!" Kroehling's film, "Shadow Casting Me " is part of director Lars Von Trier's, Gesamt Project in the Copenhagen Art Festival and the Gothenburg Film Festival. Kroehling also is a fine artist with a body of personal expanded cinema work screened internationally at galleries and museums including MOMA and the Jewish Museum in New York, Teatro de Triennale di Milano, Art Basel Miami, WAAM, and WAH. Kroehling's Poet Don't Avert Your Eyes! was screened at Art Basel Miami 2018. He is completing the feature film "I Love You Shelly Weintraub" (2022) and "After, Bringing The Dead Back To Life" (2022) -a performance film of some of the world' s greatest poets including Leonard Cohen, Alicia Ostriker, and Academy Award winning actor Geza Rohrig. In 2022 Richard completed I Love You Shelly Weintraub "A Woman's Life In 31 Scenes", starring (Florencia Lozano (Narcos) and Ana Reeder (No Country For Old Men, Sally Norvell Paris, Texas). Richard has adapted for the screen and will direct WAR in 2023, by celebrated Swedish playwright Lars Noren. In 2020, Richard collaborated with celebrated cinematographer Lisa Rinzler (Pollock, Don't Blink, Robert Frank) on the multi-screened Dollarland installed at WAAM. The work explores the hidden lives of an imagined American city,

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I Love You Shelly Weintraub "A Woman's Life In 31 Scenes"

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After "Bringing The Dead Back To Life"

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Reviews:

 "... the most astonishing and poetic compression of grand ideas ever managed in one hour of television ... a masterful film portrait... Kroehling enters Einstein's mind with great personal cinematic style." (Einstein) / Robert Koehler, The Los Angeles Times (1999)

"William Hurt captures Einstein's inner world brilliantly..." / The New York Times (1999)

"William Hurt eloquent portrayal, Michael Galasso's haunting score, and director Kroehling shifting rhapsody of black and white imagery make a moving emotional portrait." / The Hollywood Reporter

"A mind-boggling and transcendent journey." (Einstein) / The Hollywood Reporter

"A movie making wild style that delivers you into a scorching, disturbing world." "A proposition For Richard" by Francesco Scarpelli (World Without End) / Milano Creativo, Filmmaker Cine Magazine

"...World Without End, is an eerie and poetic, a visionary work that film that will complicate all future discussion about non-fiction film." / Filmmakers

Confessions. Grade A"...Disturbing and gripping from the dark side". / Entertainment Weekly (Sept 8, 2000)

Confessions. "Bizarre, Lurid, A rank appeal to prurience. The worse show in the history of television!" / The New York Times

Confessions. "The next Bid Bad Thing" / The Boston Globe (Sept. 2000)

"Kroehling created a crime landscape of novelistic intensity. As in the best work of Oliver Stone we get in the minds of the main characters - sometimes simultaneously." (Matt Zoller Zietz, Cop Killer's Wife) / National Gannet Newspapers

"This breathtaking movie starring James Remar is as confronting as it is mesmerizing!" , "2B" / Trenchard Smith, Sydney Film Festival and preeminent Australian Film Critic

"...Terrific, gutsy, artfully explores the epochal issues at stake." "2B" / Ray Kurzweil, world-renowned futurist and author of "The Singularity Is Near"

"Science fiction has caught up with reality in 2B ... technology is catching up with prophesy..." / The Huffington Post (2011)

"After, Bringing The Dead Back To Life"....a brilliant and totally unique cinematic take on the Shoah. This contrapuntal work provides devastating words from the poets and powerful imagery!" - Mollie Haskel, New Yorker (2022)

(2001) &quot;American Confessions&quot;. Two-hour feature length version. Festival Milano.

(2012) &quot;Shadow Casting Me&quot; part of director Lars Von Trier&#39;s Gesamt project in the 2012 Copenhagen Art Festival. Swedish Goteborg International Film Festival 2013.

(1985) &quot;Visions of Utopia&quot;. Documentary. One hour. Jewish Film Festival, Paris. Brooklyn Film Festival . Festival Modena. PBS. Museum of Modern Art. Jewish Museum Film Festival. MOMA. NYC.

(2013) &quot;Thinker of Untold Dreams&quot;. Documentary. One hour. World renowned MacArthur &quot;genius&quot;, author, and complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman at work on a ground-breaking new theory of consciousness. Festivals.

(1995) &quot;Private Burmeister&quot;. Documentary. One hour. International TV and DVD. Inside a Neo Nazi cult in U.S. Army elite 101rst Airborne Division.

(1999) &quot;World Without End&quot;. - Feature Documentary/fiction England&#39;s Channel FOUR. Cutting Edge TV series. A journey into America and the end timer subculture preparing for their last day on planet earth. Italian Critic and novelist Francesco Scarpelli wrote,&quot; a movie making wild style that delivers you into a scorching disturbing world&quot;.

(2005) &quot;Taking Vegas&quot;. - Court TV Special. MIT blackjack team on Vegas strip. From NY Times bestseller by Ben Mezerich. Director/writer.

(2001) &quot;Confessions&quot; 13 part series. Crime Documentary. International Festival audience. Entertainment Weekly magazine called it &quot;the next big bad thing&quot; and &quot;gripping, part of a new wave&quot;. Creator of series. Director.

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