Writer/Consultant/ProducerIndividual
Richard Klagsbrun is a writer, consultant, filmmaker and media commentator. He was personally recruited and hired by Jeff Skoll to be part of the original team of Executives at Participant Productions. As Creative and Strategic Planning Executive, he worked on Participant's first slate of films which garnered 11 Academy Award nominations in categories including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. He was instrumental in conceiving Participant's social action planning, which was used for the campaigns of films such as An Inconvenient Truth.
More recently, Richard was one of the co-founders, along with former Sony Pictures co-President Jeff Sagansky, of the social viewing company View2gether. He has been a featured conference speaker and as a writer on social, political, health and education issues, Richard's writing has appeared in the National Post, The Walrus, and other publications.
Currently, Richard is in the process of producing a play he has written on freedom of speech, political bias, and stereotyping in academia. It's a comedy. Richard also currently is on the Advisory Board of the Screenwriting and Narrative Design Program, at George Brown College in Toronto.