Frederic J.A. Richter

A native Manhattanite, Frederic is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where he pursued history, writing and literature, and The American Film Institute, where studied Screenwriting. While at SLC he was selected as their delegate for SCUSA, a foreign affairs conference held at West Point, where he discussed counter-insurgency tactics, was a Student Senator, and shared his work with the Board of Trustees. Frederic worked at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, where he assisted with transcriptions and research.

At AFI he completed four feature-length screenplays: AFPAK, APPEARANCES OPERATION BLACKBEARD, and ANOTHER LIFE. OPERATION BLACKBEARD was a quarter finalist in the PAGE awards and APPEARANCES was a semi-finalist in the Champion Screenwriting Contest and won 1st place in the feature length screenplay category of the Slamdance Screenwriting competition. He also wrote and co-authored four short films, and two TV Pilots, ""The Concession"", and ""Al's Qaeda"". He received the Phillip and Patricia Barry Scholarship while at AFI. He has interned as a script analyst for Goldcrest Films and Film Rites. He enjoyed working on Machsom and looks forward to collaborating with the same team in the future.