Rick Litvin is a filmmaker, songwriter and educator. His work as a producer or director has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, MTV, VH-1 of MTV Networks, IFC Center, Cooper Gallery at Harvard University, Montclair State University, Art Basel Miami, African American Museum of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work has also been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Public Radio International, The BBC, CBS, NBC, PopMatters, The Atlantic and PBS, as well as being reviewed across a spectrum of publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Irish Times and Rolling Stone. In addition, his work has been featured and distributed through The Atlantic, Billboard and The Smithsonian Website Magazine. Rick produced ten music videos for Joan Baez’s finalGrammy Nominated album “Whistle Down the Wind.” From that collection of work, “The President Sang Amazing Grace” was distinguished as an Atlantic Selects video (640,000 YouTube views) and was published in book form through Cameron + Company and distributed by Abrams Books. He also directed Shawn Colvin’s Grammy Award Winningdebut album video, “Steady On” which was designated a 5 Star Video by VH-1 upon release. Rick is currently working on a funded research project which traces the history, evolution and impact of UGFTV’s seminal film production class, Sight and Sound Filmmaking, which will culminate in a public-facing installation at the Tisch School of the Arts. He is also producing and directing an experimental documentary project in collaboration with Joe Gilford. This documentary chronicles the evolving culture of the West Village of the 1960’s and 1970’s and overlaps with never before seen footage featuring Jack Gilford, Zero Mostel, Alan Arkin, Phil Silvers and Buster Keaton during the production of Richard Lester’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Mike Nichol’s Catch-22. Rick recently co-produced his 10th album collaboration with Lucy Kaplansky and her 2025 release of “The Lucy Story,” a two disc anthology tracing Lucy’s 45 year career as a recording and touring musician and her history creating music in a range of American musical idioms (folk, country, roots, jazz and pop) performed and recorded around the world and never previously released.
Rick is a member of ASCAP, UFVA and The Trebuchet as a Convisero Mentor (The Trebuchet grew out of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University).
Rick Litvin is a full Arts Professor in the Undergraduate Film & Television Department in the Kanbar Institute of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.