Tim Ritter

Living abroad with sometimes only one English-language channel, Tim Ritter developed a healthy love for cinema thanks to his then-growing collection of movies recorded straight to VHS on those travels. However, it wasn't until the tail end of an accomplished decade as a newspaper reporter that Ritter ventured behind the camera. Taking Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew as his bible, Ritter taught himself true independent filmmaking. Within a decade, Ritter had multiple feature films as a director under his belt that have screened worldwide, served as a founding member of the Fort Myers Film Festival advisory board, earned a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema at the University of Central Florida, and had taught more than two dozen distinct film classes at the collegiate level covering nearly all aspects of production. Ritter continues to focus on pushing the envelope of low-resource filmmaking while exploring how ancient moral concepts thrive or diminish in modern settings and scenarios.