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Richard Chisolm

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Richard Chisolm
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
Occupation(s)Cinematographer and film-maker
Notable workDon't Say Goodbye: America's Endangered Species
Websitehttp://www.richardchisolm.com/

Richard Chisolm is an cinematographer and film-maker based in Baltimore, Maryland.[1][2][3] Chisolm is most experienced in documentaries and actuality-style dramas.[4] He has done additional camera work for feature films, television series, commercials and corporate and educational videos.[4][5]

Early life and education

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Chisolm graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1982.[1][6] In 2001, he was awarded "Distinguished Alumnus of the Year."[4]

Career

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After graduating from college, Chisolm taught film classes at Johns Hopkins University until 1992.[4] Don't Say Goodbye: America's Endangered Species, a piece he worked on for the National Geographic Channel, received an Emmy Award in 1998.[1][7][8] The program followed two photographers who traveled the United States to take pictures of endangered animal and plant species.[1] That year, Chisolm worked as a camera operator for Homicide: Life on the Streets, a television series featured on NBC.[6] He served as director of photography for 24/7, a six-part documentary on Johns Hopkins Hospital produced by ABC, in 2000.[1][9] In 2002, Chisolm screened three short documentaries at the Maryland Documentary Symposium.[10] Chisolm shot and co-produced "The Building of a Sanctuary," a documentary about the architecture and setting of The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, in 2003.[7]

Chisolm spoke about school lunch reform at a TEDx event in May 2010.[11] He directed and shot Cafeteria Man, a documentary on school food reform, in 2011.[12] The documentary was screened at over 20 international film festivals and aired on PBS.[13][14][15] He has shot documentaries for the American Red Cross in Zimbabwe and El Salvador, directed the camera for a PBS series on homeless children in Guatemala and shot eleven National Geographic documentaries.[8] Chisolm has received a Peabody Award, a Columbia duPont Journalism award, two Kodak Vision awards and three CINE Golden Eagles.[15]

Filmography

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  • The Passing (1985)
  • Local Heroes, Global Change (1 episode) (1990)
  • Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress (1990)
  • Childhood (1991)
  • American Experience (1 episode) (1994)
  • Innovation (1997)
  • Volcano: Nature's Inferno (1997)
  • Arguing the World (1998)
  • America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye (1998)
  • Frontline (2 episodes) (1997/1998)
  • Anatomy of a Homicide: Life on the Street (1998)
  • Avalanche: The White Death(1998)
  • American Masters (1 episode) (1999)
  • American Byzantine (2000)
  • Hopkins 24/7 (2000)
  • In Bad Taste (2000)
  • The Shape of Life (1 episode) (2001)
  • Nurses (1 episode) (2001)
  • Treasure Seekers: Mysteries of the Nile (2001)
  • Treasure Seekers: In the Shadow of Ancient Rome (2001)
  • Plagues: The Ebola Riddle (2001)
  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
  • The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis (2004)
  • Hunter & Hunted (4 episodes) (2005)
  • Nova (1 episode) (2005)
  • All the Dirt on A Dirty Shame (2005)
  • 50/50 (2006)
  • National Geographic Explorer (2 episodes) (2006/2007)
  • The Truth About Cancer (2008)
  • Waiting for Hockney (2008)
  • Hopkins (7 episodes) (2008)
  • The Response (2008)
  • Bach & Friends (2010)
  • Cafeteria Man (2011)
  • Risk Takers (1 episode) (2011)
  • What Love Is: The Duke Pathfinders 50 (2012)
  • JFK: A President Betrayed (2013)
  • American Secrets (2014)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Shapiro, Stephanie (January 18, 2000). "Getting The Picture". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Filmmakers". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  3. ^ "Director to screen, speak about rebel chef in 'Cafeteria Man'". February 21, 2013. Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d "Richard Chisolm: Director of the film "Cafeteria Man"". University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  5. ^ "Rex Sikes' Movie Beat chats with cinematographer/filmmaker Richard Chisolm". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  6. ^ a b Denise Elizabeth Lee. "Creating Visual Poetry and Compelling Stories". Archived from the original on July 25, 2001. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  7. ^ a b Lisa DeNike (May 28, 2003). "Healing power, by design".
  8. ^ a b Michael Fickes. "Director of Photography Richard Chisolm seeks out the highs and lows of real life".
  9. ^ Zurawik, David (June 17, 2007). "Second act for 'Hopkins 24 / 7'". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  10. ^ Eric Allen Hatch (November 13, 2002). "Real Life on the Streets".
  11. ^ "TEDx Talks on Food Cambridge: How Do You Eat?–Sunday, May 16th". May 4, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  12. ^ "100 Years of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  13. ^ "Richard Chisolm". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  14. ^ "TEDxCambridge: How do you eat? May 16th". May 8, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  15. ^ a b "Speakers: Richard Chisolm". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
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