Rick is a storyteller who studied film directing under Mark W Travis in Los Angeles and earned a B.A in Cinema Production from the University of Hartford. He is also a graduate of the Connecticut Film Industry Training Program where he trained as a camera operator on Panavison Cameras. While his interest in creating stories started at an early age, Rick realized his passion while attending a film-making class at the MGM Studios backlot at Disney in Florida. Rick owns his own production company R² Pictures based out of central Connecticut and recently finished his first feature film “Shoulder to Shoulder: One Team’s Legacy” a movie about life’s triumph’s and tragedies which he directed and edited. Rick’s films are a diverse variety of genres including Westerns “The Children of Angel Creek”, Sci-Fi “The Final Revelation”, Action-Adventure “The Last Americans” as we’ll as a WWII drama “Besteigung” which was selected for the Las Vegas CineFest as well as winning the the Film Accolade Awards “Award of Merit”.
