Filmmaker and photographer
Born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, filmmaker Richard Shpuntoff has directed a dozen short films including Epiphany of Returning, The Body, In Queens my ambitious soul I bare and Morning Dance. Julio of Jackson Heights, a documentary film that grew out of his 20 year project documenting the Queens Pride Parade, is his first feature length film. It won the Social Impact Award when it premiered at the Queens World Film Festival and was featured in the New York Times.