Richard Abramowitz is an innovative leader with more than 35 years of experience in the distribution and marketing of independent films. His company, Abramorama, takes a personalized, focused form of film marketing and distribution that bypasses traditional film studios and their methodology, providing valuable distribution alternatives to content makers and owners. Abramowitz’s recent distribution projects include Ron Howard’s celebrated documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years; Laurie Anderson’s acclaimed Heart of a Dog, Sundance standouts Listen to Me Marlon (Peabody Award-winner) and Racing Extinction, the latter from Academy Award-winner Louie Psyhoros, This Changes Everything from Naomi Klein’s NY Times Best-seller, Box Office surprise AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda, PGA nominee for Best Documentary Particle Fever, Banksy’s Spirit Award winner and Academy Award nominee Exit Through the Gift Shop, and Sacha Gervasi’s Spirit Award-winning music documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil! Abramowitz was a co-founder of Stratosphere Entertainment, the independent distribution and Production Company financed by Carl Icahn. Stratosphere’s releases included The Thief, Hideous Kinky and Xiu-Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. 

While President/COO of RKO Pictures Distribution, Abramowitz handled The Shooting Gallery’s acclaimed first feature, Laws of Gravity. Prior to that, as a senior executive at Cinecom Entertainment, he distributed John Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet and Matewan, Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense and Swimming to Cambodia, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Merchant Ivory's A Room with a View and Maurice, among many others. Abramowitz currently teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Film and Television, and the film conservatory at Purchase College. He is a frequent panelist and juror at film festivals around the world.