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Sea Point Films and Media

Sea Point Films and Media was founded by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Richard Trank who also serves as the production company’s Executive Producer.

Trank is a lauded filmmaker with 16 of his films currently streaming on all major platforms.

Sea Point Films and Media currently has two documentary films in production, Always 28 and The Road Home. A third project, Toto & Coco, is in development following the acquisition of the narrative and streaming rights by Sea Point Films and Media.

Through documentary, narrative, and innovative media, Sea Point Films and Media illuminates the legacy of the past while inspiring the dreams of the future by bringing to light powerful stories that matter for generations to come.

Richard Trank

Richard Trank is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and the Founder and Executive Producer of Sea Point Films and Media.

Prior to launching his production company, Trank was the founding Executive Producer and Principal Writer/Director of Moriah Films, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s two-time Academy Award-winning film division. In that role, Trank wrote and directed sixteen films, all of which continue to stream on every major platform with a worldwide viewing audience of over a billion people.

He is also a Writer’s Guild of America award nominee and PEN award winner.

Trank’s film, Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres, narrated by George Clooney, features Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama, Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu, and Barbra Streisand. It began streaming as a Netflix Original in July 2022 and has been one of the most popular on the platform.

His extensive filmography includes Echoes That Remain; Liberation; The Long Way Home; In Search of Peace; Unlikely Heroes; Beautiful Music; Ever Again; I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal; Against The Tide; Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny; It Is No Dream: The Biography of Theodor Herzl; The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers and The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers (both films based on the best-selling book by Ambassador Yehuda Avner); Our Boys; and Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres.

Trank’s films have appeared in major film festivals around the globe, with many winning prestigious industry awards including winner of numerous Best of Festival and Audience Favorite Awards from the Chicago International and Jerusalem Film Festivals to the Seattle, San Sebastian and Deauville Film Festivals.

He has interviewed numerous world leaders who have appeared in his films including American Presidents Reagan, Obama, Clinton, Bush; French Prime Minister Sarkozy; UK Prime Minister Blair; Israeli Prime Ministers Peres, Rabin, Shamir, Sharon, Barak, Netanyahu; Israeli President Herzog and Ambassador Abba Eban. Adding to the list of luminaries have been Simon Wiesenthal, Barbra Streisand, A.B. Yehoshua, Natan Sharansky, Joseph Heller, Jane Fonda, David Broza and Isaac Stern, amongst others.

Narrating his documentaries have been entertainment industry icons including George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Sir Ben Kingsley, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, Julianna Margulies, Morgan, Freeman, Anne Bancroft, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Shields, and Whoopi Goldberg.

As a respected member of the international documentary filmmaking community, his opinion pieces have appeared in publications including The Hill, The Jerusalem Post, and The Hollywood Reporter.