Anne Elizabeth Richardson

Anne Richardson

Richardson's father was a Methodist minister who moved the family from Dodgeville to Yakima, WA and Coos Bay, OR, finally settling in Portland. She attended Grant HS and Adams HS in Portland, and then Sarah Lawrence College. In 1979, she entered Columbia University, School of General Studies. She was a teaching assistant at Columbia Film Division for Brad Dourif (acting), Richard Brick (producing) and Brian DePalma (directing).[1] She received an MFA from Columbia in 1990. Her Thesis was the screenplay "The Universe and Zoe Einstein." At Columbia, she made the film "A Boy and His Car" (1990) as producer and writer. Richardson did post-graduate study at New York University, Department of Cinema Studies, 1996-1997, where she took courses taught by William K. Everson and Manthia Diawara.[2]

Flyer for showing of A Boy and His Car A film made by Anne Richardson

"A Boy and His Car" was shown at the 9th Festival of Cinema for Youth Australians, Adelaide, Australia, 1990; Independent Feature Market, New York, 1990; National Film and Video Festival, Oakland, 1991; American Film & Video Festival, Philadelphia, 1991. The film won the Gold Award, Original Dramatic Short Subject, at the 1991 Houston International Film Festival; First Prize, Best Narrative, 1991 Brooklyn Arts Council Film Festival; All Star, Coalition for Quality Children's Media, 1994; and was a Finalist at the 1991 USA Film Festival, Dallas. It was sold to VPRO Television, Holland, KNOWLEDGE TV, Canada; FTE TV, Ireland, TV 1000, United Kingdom; NRK TV, Ireland; SABC South Africa, Israel Edec. TV, Israel; ACCESS TV, Canada; and Nickelodeon USA. A foreign language soundtrack was made for Sweden, Idefilm.[3][4][5] "A Boy and His Car" was shown publicly at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the Uris Center Auditorium, March 23, 1991.[6] Library prints were sold to the New York Public Library, where it was shown publicly at the Donnell Media Center on April 2, 1996, leading a program that included "The Little Fugitive (1952), Cinderella (1986), The Tender Tail of Cinderella Penguin, and The Cruz Brothers and Miss Molly (1979).[7][8] [9]

Richardson taught, Adjunct, Directing Actors for the Camera, Department of Theater & Communication, Trenton State College, New Jersey, 1990; Adjunct, Film and Literature, Kingsborough Community College - CUNY, Brooklyn, New York, 1994-1996; Adjunct Faculty, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, Intensive Scriptwriting, 1998 - 2000; Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University, Tools of the Scriptwriter, 2000, Hollywood Does the Cakewalk, 2001; Instructor, Northwest Film Center, Survey of Avant Garde Films.

Paper, Boom! The Fishtank Explode: Surrealism, Fellini & Brian DePalma, Presented at Rutgers Italian Film Conference, October 1996. On September 21, 2014, she gave a lecture about Portlandia at the symposium Western Lands Western Voices, at University of Utah, in Salt Lake City.[10] She was a producer of the Time Based Art Project The Portland That Was (Portland,2006), and presented a paper and lecture about it the Reimagining the Archive, a three day symposium, at UCLA, November 12-14, 2010.[11] [12] [13] She wrote, produced and directed, her one woman multivideo event,"Howard's War," assisted by Janis Carperand Craig Strobel and Stage One in the EM&M building, Enterprise, Oregon on June 6, 2007.[14] Richardson gave a lecture about Harry Smith, "Harry Smith: Cross Cultureality in a Salmon Nation Beatnik" at the Univsity of Oregon on Nov 5, 2014. [15]

Richardson created the Oregon Cartoon Institute in 2007.[16] It has created many programs about Mel Blanc, James Ivory, Homer Groening, Harry Smith, and other Oregonians who created Animation Cartoons, paper Cartoons, and motion picture shorts and features.[17]

The Mel Blanc Project Program created by Oregon Cartoon Institute Portland 2011