Peter Richardson's work as a director and showrunner has garnered widespread recognition, with features and series airing on HBO, Netflix, Showtime, National Geographic, OWN, and the Sundance Channel, earning awards for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and an Emmy Nomination for Best Documentary.
His initial two feature documentaries premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, with the latter, "How to Die in Oregon", winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary and airing on HBO, with The Chicago Sun-Times predicting the film will be viewed as one of the most historically significant documentaries of this decade.
Richardson has extensively worked on premium documentary series, most recently as showrunner of "QB1: Beyond the Lights", now in its fourth season on Netflix and Executive Produced by Peter Berg.
Before "QB1", Richardson directed the documentary segments for season 1 of National Geographic's groundbreaking series "Mars", Executive Produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.
For Showtime, he was co-Executive Producer on season 2 of "The Circus: The Greatest Political Show on Earth" and Series Director on season 1 and 2 of "Dark Net".
He started his work on premium documentary as a Series Director on Oprah Winfrey's "Belief", a landmark 7-part global series narrated and Executive Produced by Ms Winfrey.
In addition to his work as a director and showrunner, Richardson was cinematographer on three HBO Documentary films and won the award for Best Editing at IFFBoston for "How to Die in Oregon".
