Richard Switzer

Richard Switzer was profiled on Entertainment Tonight at the age of 18, where he was dubbed a "teenage movie mogul" for being the youngest film producer in history. He produced his first feature film as a freshman at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. With a crew of film students and a shoestring budget, the film was sold to Lifetime TV in North America and NBC Universal overseas for television. By the age of 21, Switzer had produced and arranged financing for more than a dozen feature films. He has produced and sold multiple films to Lionsgate and Sony Pictures along with sales in international territories such as the Middle East, Japan, Germany, Russia, China, and Italy, among countless others. He executive produced the SXSW hit "Tragedy Girls", with Craig Robinson and Josh Hutcherson, and reunited Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren when he produced "Black Water", released by Saban Films in North America and grossing $8 million on 3,000 screens theatrically in China, debuting #1 at the box office opening weekend. He founded Switzer Entertainment Group (SEG) in 2013 where he oversaw the production and financing of numerous feature films that were sold across the globe. Switzer is a partner at Dawn's Light, where he arranges financing for films in various stages of production and packages commercially viable content to produce, finance, and distribute worldwide.