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richard fleming

Richard Fleming, sound recordist for MY NEIGHBOR MY KILLER, has worked with director Anne Aghion on the Emmy-winning documentary “IN RWANDA WE SAY... THE FAMILY THAT DOES NOT SPEAK DIES,” and on “THE NOTEBOOKS OF MEMORY,” the final chapter of the Gacaca Trilogy, as well as on Aghion’s groundbreaking documentary, “ICE PEOPLE.” Since 1990 Fleming’s film work has brought him to the farthest reaches of the globe. He has camped the frozen deserts of Antarctica, accompanied Kofi Annan around the world, flown missions over Kandahar with the U.S. Army Reserve, followed Imelda Marcos on the presidential campaign trail in the Philippines, and sweltered on the decks of a nuclear aircraft carrier plying the waters of the Persian Gulf. Among his numerous credits are the documentaries From “Kansas to Kandahar,” by noted director Cal Skaggs for the PBS series “America at a Crossroads,” “Show of Force’s Carrier Project,” and “Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm,” by renowned filmmaker David Grubin, both for PBS; “Sumo East and West,” by Ferne Pearlstein, and “Iron Butterfly, The Story of Imelda Marcos,” by Ramona Diaz, both for ITVS. Other credits include “Les Illuminations de Madame Narval,” by Charles Najman, for the Franco-German television channel ARTE, and work as both a writer and recordist on Alex Wolfe's “Santo Domingo Blues.”

Richard FlemingHis dramatic credits include the multiple award-winning theatrical feature “La Ciudad,” by David Riker. Fleming is also an accomplished writer, photographer, and amateur musicologist. His blog, “A Brooklynite on the Ice”, which began as an account of his adventures during his four-month shoot in Antarctica with Aghion, now focuses on his “actual and literary meanderings.” His book “Walking to Guantanamo” and the companion volume of photographs, “The Road to Guantánamo,” chronicling Fleming’s year-long walk across the island of Cuba, has garnered glowing critical praise.