Director | Cinematographer | Producer

Richie Duque is a first-generation Colombian, born and raised in Lindenhurst, NY. He graduated from Boston University in 2013 with a B.S. in Film Production. Apart from his few classes with Professor Ray Carney, a leading scholar on the work of John Cassavetes, Richie was ultimately dismayed with his film education. His production knowledge largely came from the projects he made with his friends outside of class. During, and soon after, his time at BU Richie co-directed and shot a handful of low-budget, short-films with his best-friend and closest collaborator: Chris Kenny (Sink, 2013, A Lonely Hymn, 2014, Hush the Noise, 2015, Someday My Prince Will Come, 2016).

A Lonely Hymn was produced and screened through the Christine Vachon/Killer Films MFA Film Program. From the strength of the short film, Emmy and PGA award-winning Director/Producer, Tony Gerber, hired Richie for his first professional camera operator role on a National Geographic project (a project that would go on to become Brett Morgen’s BAFTA winning Jane, though Richie’s work on it was only in early development stages) This started Richie’s freelance Cinematographer/Cam Op career at the age of 22. He has since worked for clients such as American Airlines, Columbia Records, Facebook, Google, Universal Records, and many more. In 2015, he founded the film production collective, Oneonefive, that represented a diverse roster of young commercial directors across the states. In 2019, the collective was disbanded when he decided to return his focus back to narrative filmmaking.

Apart from his freelance work, Richie had a long career attending international film festivals. His longest tenure was with the Cannes Film Festival where he worked from 2012 to 2019. He first went as a 20 year old interning for Endeavor (formerly known as William Morris Endeavor), then as the lead producer on the Marché Du Film Program videos (2015-2018), later as as a freelance videographer for Variety Magazine (2018-2019), and most proudly as the Director of the Filmmaker Institute for The Creative Mind Group (2013-2019). “Creative Minds” was a non-profit organization whose mission was to introduce the next generation of filmmakers to the industry by way of film festivals. Being in charge of the Filmmaker Institute tasked him with selecting college-aged filmmakers from around the world to attend Cannes where they would shoot, edit, and premiere a short film in the festival. Apart from guiding them through the filmmaking process, he also organized industry talks for them with such names as Chloé Zhao, Charlotte Wells, and Reinaldo Green. These opportunities at Cannes ended up leading to three consecutive years at TIFF, four consecutive years at the Berlinale, and five consecutive years at Sundance where he met many life-time friends in the industry.

In 2018, Tony Gerber once again hired Richie, this time to direct, shoot, and edit a feature-length documentary following The Public Theater’s National Mobile Production of SWEAT. The Public Theater traveled through the Rust-Belt of America in the fall of 2018, with an 18-stop tour of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play SWEAT. Nottage’s play was heralded in The New Yorker as, “The first theatrical landmark of the Trump era…a tough yet empathetic portrait of the America that came undone.” The production was brought across five states to non-traditional venues and an audience talk-back followed each performance. Unfortunately, in late 2021 when theaters started opening again after COVID, the 90 minute edit was put on indefinite hiatus after priorities shifted back towards supporting live performances.

Chris Kenny was born and raised in Lindenhurst, NY. He graduated from Lindenhurst High School in 2010 and studied English at SUNY Geneseo before transferring to Boston University in 2012 to finish his degree. Though he majored in English Literature, Chris also took a number of film theory classes with BU Professor Ray Carney that shaped his perspective on anti-establishment filmmaking. During his time at BU, Chris began collaborating with Richie on his short films. The first film they worked on together was, Sink, written by and starring Chris during his first fall semester in Boston. Chris and Richie’s first experience Co-Directing and Co-Writing was on Hush the Noise, also starring Chris in his study abroad semester in Copenhagen. To date, it is the film project the two are most proud of and they both feel capture their artistic sensibilities best. They found their different expertise in film to perfectly compliment each other’s and decided to continue their creative partnership.

After Chris graduated from BU in 2015, he moved back to Long Island where he wrote and co-directed Someday My Prince Will Come with Richie. It was the first film they had made taking place in their hometown of Lindenhurst and the process left them eager to write more about their adolescence. They began developing together three different feature length scripts following teenage characters in Lindenhurst. The first of which they hope to bring to life with The Earth Belongs to Me. The other two films are Alligator, which explores the same three characters of this story a few years later and Someday My Prince Will Come which instead focuses on a female adolescent experience in the same town. Apart from these film projects, Chris has been active in writing dozens of short prose and poetry pieces all inspired by Lindenhurst and the many fictional characters he has created for these films. After this film, it is his hope to write and publish several book ideas from the same cinematic world of Earth.

Chris’ writing is extremely character driven, often with dialogue inspired by his actors’ voices. His education in English Literature and background as a prose and poetry writer, give his scripts a different tone and formalism not often reflected in modern films. His influences vary but he typically pulls a great source of inspiration from Southern Gothic writers like Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor. He is also moved by writers like Don DeLillo, James Joyce, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

Producer

Evan Cathcart has worked in the production department for numerous films and television shows created under A24, NBC, Killer Films, Paramount, BBC Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, and more. He has worked as a production coordinator for films and programs such as The Trial of the Chicago 7, Blindspot, Topside, and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. He most recently finished work as a prodution coordinator on I Saw the TV Glow, by A24 and is currently on a Julianne Moore Apple TV Film Project.

Andrea Norby is a Los Angeles based feature-film editor who got her start story editing for true crime docu-series on Discovery. She honed her craft at commercial editing house Cartel, founded by Adam Robinson and Leo Scott, two editors best known for their close collaborations with Harmony Korine. At Cartel she worked as an assistant editor cutting with top creative teams at Droga5, Wieden+Kennedy and Johannes Leonardo. Her most recent work was on Andrew Dominik’s "Blonde," produced through Plan B and Netflix. Although initially brought on as an assistant editor, her credit was personally adjusted by Andrew to “additional editor” where she shared the credit with Jennifer Lame (editor of Marriage Story and Hereditary.) After finishing Blonde, she served as an additional editor on a new “Untitled Harmony Korine” Feature before moving onto her latest project "Iron Claw,” the new Sean Durkin/A24 Film starring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White.

Trey Tetreault is a director, producer, and creative specialist based in New York City. He is an award-winning director of theatre and film, having won awards for his short films Last Room and The Tunnel at Independent Shorts Awards, Indie Shorts Fest, and many more international festivals. His various production credits include working as Producer/Narrative Supervisor on the documentary, Holding Back the Tide, a Sundance Editor’s Lab Finalist with Gotham Fiscal Sponsorship. He is also the associate producer on Love All, produced by 4-time Tony Award winning producer, Harriet Leve. Trey has additionally held various freelance roles for the likes of Saturday Night Live, HBO, and Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown.

Christopher Coryat is a New York based multifaceted artist who works in TV, film, sound, painting, performance, and sculpture. While working for Showtime at the Desus and Mero show he was head assistant to the art director, director for several music videos, and a short indie film entitled The Tunnel. Currently he works as an assistant director for the TV series Endless Souls and is a producer on the play ENTER THE VOID or Facebook Play. Christopher is the founder of the art collective WUMBO, operating within a curated sculptural space he developed entitled “The House”.