About Me
Richard Schenkman wrote his first feature film, The Pompatus of Love, with Jon Cryer and Adam Oliensis. It premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival, and was released theatrically soon after. He directed the action/drama October 22 for Millennium Films, and followed that with Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five, his second feature with co-writer Jon Cryer. It won numerous awards on the festival circuit, was theatrically released, and acquired by Blockbuster as an exclusive rental title. In early 2008 it was finally released on DVD after being meticulously restored in HD.In 2000, he wrote and directed "A Divas Christmas Carol", which was a holiday ratings blockbuster for VH1 and airs annually. Weeks later, his daughter was born, and he decided to take a break from filmmaking to concentrate on raising her. He did, however, teach a Master Class for the Rhode Island Int..l Film Festival, on whose advisory board he serves, and created ..Drama Queen.., an NBC sitcom for Vanessa Williams. He also completed several new screenplays with Jon Cryer including the political action-thriller Cosmodrome, and the heist comedy LostBoyz.He had two features released in the last twelve months: Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth & And Then Came Love, a romantic-dramedy starring Vanessa Williams and Eartha Kitt. Both films are currently available everywhere on DVD.
