Nationality American Name Richard Chisolm | Role Cinematographer | |
Occupation Cinematographer and film-maker Notable work Don't Say Goodbye: America's Endangered Species Residence Balti, Maryland, United States Alma mater University of Maryland, Balti County Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming Movies Cafeteria Man, Waiting for Hockney, Arguing the World, The Response, Cafeteria Man: Memphis Similar Julie Checkoway, Adam Rodgers, Chris A Peterson | ||
GRIT-X 2018: Richard Chisolm
Richard Chisolm is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and film-maker based in Baltimore, Maryland. Chisolm is most experienced in documentaries and actuality-style dramas. He has done additional camera work for feature films, television series, commercials and corporate and educational videos.
Contents
- GRIT X 2018 Richard Chisolm
- Cafeteria Man After Seven Years Director Richard Chisolm Looks Back
- Early life and education
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Cafeteria Man After Seven Years: Director Richard Chisolm Looks Back
Early life and education
Chisolm graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1982. In 2001, he was awarded "Distinguished Alumnus of the Year."
Career
After graduating from college, Chisolm taught film classes at Johns Hopkins University until 1992. Don't Say Goodbye: America's Endangered Species, a piece he worked on for the National Geographic Channel, received an Emmy Award in 1998. The program followed two photographers who traveled the United States to take pictures of endangered animal and plant species. That year, Chisolm worked as a camera operator for Homicide: Life on the Streets, a television series featured on NBC. He served as director of photography for 24/7, a six-part documentary on Johns Hopkins Hospital produced by ABC, in 2000. In 2002, Chisolm screened three short documentaries at the Maryland Documentary Symposium. 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.
Chisolm spoke about school lunch reform at a TEDx event in May 2010. He directed and shot Cafeteria Man, a documentary on school food reform, in 2011. The documentary was screened at over 20 international film festivals and aired on PBS. 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. Chisolm has received a Peabody Award, a Columbia duPont Journalism award, two Kodak Vision awards and three CINE Golden Eagles.