Lorac Productions, Inc.

Founded in 1986, Lorac Productions Inc. is a film and television production entity, specializing in movie history. In its 19 years, it has produced over 50 hours of television programming as well as the theatrical feature documentary, “Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin,” which an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival as well as many other festivals around the world. Lorac’s 2004 reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s “The Big Red One,” which restored close to an hour of material cut from the release print of 1980, also premiered at the Cannes Festival and won numerous awards from critical and archival groups in 2004-05.

Lorac and its president, producer-writer-director Richard Schickel, have made films on many genres (Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy) and on many legendary stars (James Cagney, Myrna Loy, Barbara Stanwyck, Clint Eastwood) as well as on the distinguished special effects artist, Ray Harryhausen, and on the combat cameramen of world War II (“Shooting War”). The company’s particular specialty is portraits of leading American directors, Over the years it has made 19 programs on these figures, including among them Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Elia Kazan, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. Mr. Schickel served as co-executive producer of the American Film Institute’s 10 part series, “100 Years, 100 Films, and produced, wrote and directed two of its episodes.