Team
Steve Richards (StevenRRichards.com)
Director
Steve Richards is a co-founder and director of the TheoEco Institute. An environmentalist at heart, he is deeply concerned with how the intersection of theology and economics impact the ecology, all of which is the kernel that led to the TheoEco Institute. He and his daughter Bobbie Richards produced TheoEco’s first feature-length documentary “Piles of Bricks,” a film about the April 2015 earthquakes in Nepal and the following recovery efforts. He produces all of TheoEco’s documentaries.
Steve was born in Camden, New Jersey, raised in Miami, Florida, and spent decades in finance in New England before finding his more missionary side in 2010 via environmentalist leanings and a quixotic attempt to discern the role the Spirit plays in the world's economic activities. He finished his first study, Economics in the Gospels while studying theology and economics at Yale University in 2014.
Richards founded the TheoEco Institute in 2015, a non-profit concerned with documenting, assisting, and researching those entangled in environmental and economic predicaments. Documentaries are a big part of TheoEco's focus, as are its connections with Nepal, the 2015 earthquakes there, and the National Theological College in Kathmandu, where Richards has been a visiting professor since 2015.
Richards is managing director of TheoEco Institute, a non-profit that documents, assists, and researches those entangled in economic and ecological predicaments, like Ukraine’s situation with its nuclear power plants in the midst of war.
Richards directs and produces TheoEco’s documentaries including Piles of Bricks - Revisited, a sequel to the original Piles of Bricks film documenting Nepal’s rebuilding efforts at the five-year anniversary of the 2015 earthquakes. As such, he is familiar with documenting devastated places, though he suspects the West of Ukraine is not nearly so bad as Nepal was then. At least not yet, and hopefully not to be.
An environmentalist at heart, Richards is deeply concerned with how theology and economics impact the environment, which led to TheoEco Institute after a stint at Yale Divinity School where he studied economics (including behavioral, theological, environmental, and biological) and theology from 2014 to 2016. He finished his study, Economics in the Gospels there in 2014.
Steve was born in Camden, New Jersey, raised in Miami, Florida, and spent decades in finance in New England before finding his more missionary side in 2010 via environmentalist leanings and a quixotic attempt to discern the role the Spirit plays in the world's economic activities.
Richards is a proud Hurricane from the University of Miami, as well as Babson College Beaver where he earned his MBA.
Contact him at stever@theoeco.org.
For his filmography and more click here.
Director
Steve Richards is a co-founder and director of the TheoEco Institute. An environmentalist at heart, he is deeply concerned with how the intersection of theology and economics impact the ecology, all of which is the kernel that led to the TheoEco Institute. He and his daughter Bobbie Richards produced TheoEco’s first feature-length documentary “Piles of Bricks,” a film about the April 2015 earthquakes in Nepal and the following recovery efforts. He produces all of TheoEco’s documentaries.
Steve was born in Camden, New Jersey, raised in Miami, Florida, and spent decades in finance in New England before finding his more missionary side in 2010 via environmentalist leanings and a quixotic attempt to discern the role the Spirit plays in the world's economic activities. He finished his first study, Economics in the Gospels while studying theology and economics at Yale University in 2014.
Richards founded the TheoEco Institute in 2015, a non-profit concerned with documenting, assisting, and researching those entangled in environmental and economic predicaments. Documentaries are a big part of TheoEco's focus, as are its connections with Nepal, the 2015 earthquakes there, and the National Theological College in Kathmandu, where Richards has been a visiting professor since 2015.
Richards is managing director of TheoEco Institute, a non-profit that documents, assists, and researches those entangled in economic and ecological predicaments, like Ukraine’s situation with its nuclear power plants in the midst of war.
Richards directs and produces TheoEco’s documentaries including Piles of Bricks - Revisited, a sequel to the original Piles of Bricks film documenting Nepal’s rebuilding efforts at the five-year anniversary of the 2015 earthquakes. As such, he is familiar with documenting devastated places, though he suspects the West of Ukraine is not nearly so bad as Nepal was then. At least not yet, and hopefully not to be.
An environmentalist at heart, Richards is deeply concerned with how theology and economics impact the environment, which led to TheoEco Institute after a stint at Yale Divinity School where he studied economics (including behavioral, theological, environmental, and biological) and theology from 2014 to 2016. He finished his study, Economics in the Gospels there in 2014.
Steve was born in Camden, New Jersey, raised in Miami, Florida, and spent decades in finance in New England before finding his more missionary side in 2010 via environmentalist leanings and a quixotic attempt to discern the role the Spirit plays in the world's economic activities.
Richards is a proud Hurricane from the University of Miami, as well as Babson College Beaver where he earned his MBA.
Contact him at stever@theoeco.org.
For his filmography and more click here.
Bobbie Richards (BobbieSRichards.com)
Producer, Director of Photography
Bobbie Richards is a co-founder and the youngest director of TheoEco Institute. Traveling to Kathmandu with her father Steve Richards in September 2015, at age 15, she experienced first-hand the realities of documentary filmmaking in the aftermath of Nepal’s earthquakes and rebuilding efforts, and the Indian blockade of Nepal’s southern border--no petrol, no milk, rolling blackouts, and devasted conditions everywhere. A native of Miami Beach, she now resides in Boston, MA where she bittersweetly avoids the humid heat of her beloved hometown. Bobbie has co-produced all of TheoEco’s documentaries and also acts as cameraperson, writer, and co-director of TheoEco’s productions as she did in So Flo Floods, a feature-length documentary about flooding in South Florida—flooding that has happened in the past, is happening now, and will continue to happen in the future.
Producer, Director of Photography
Bobbie Richards is a co-founder and the youngest director of TheoEco Institute. Traveling to Kathmandu with her father Steve Richards in September 2015, at age 15, she experienced first-hand the realities of documentary filmmaking in the aftermath of Nepal’s earthquakes and rebuilding efforts, and the Indian blockade of Nepal’s southern border--no petrol, no milk, rolling blackouts, and devasted conditions everywhere. A native of Miami Beach, she now resides in Boston, MA where she bittersweetly avoids the humid heat of her beloved hometown. Bobbie has co-produced all of TheoEco’s documentaries and also acts as cameraperson, writer, and co-director of TheoEco’s productions as she did in So Flo Floods, a feature-length documentary about flooding in South Florida—flooding that has happened in the past, is happening now, and will continue to happen in the future.
Amit Nepali (AmitNepali.com)
Editor, Associate Producer
Amit Nepali, based in Kathmandu, is an indispensable member of the team as one can’t help but notice as the credits roll on any TheoEco documentary. He has served as editor, music composer, guide, translator, associate producer, and more. We met Amit in September 2015 five months after the earthquakes that spring. Amit quickly became our guide, interpreter, and associate producer on our first documentary about the earthquake recovery efforts: Piles of Bricks. In addition to editing TheoEco’s films he has also composed all the music to date, prepares subtitles and translations, and arranges production crews for our Nepal-based films. He scouts, guides, and introduces us to location shoots and interviewees throughout Nepal and increasingly works the camera. He even appears on camera in his guide role and as an occasional interviewee. All of our editing takes place at his Jubal Studio in Lalitpur.
Editor, Associate Producer
Amit Nepali, based in Kathmandu, is an indispensable member of the team as one can’t help but notice as the credits roll on any TheoEco documentary. He has served as editor, music composer, guide, translator, associate producer, and more. We met Amit in September 2015 five months after the earthquakes that spring. Amit quickly became our guide, interpreter, and associate producer on our first documentary about the earthquake recovery efforts: Piles of Bricks. In addition to editing TheoEco’s films he has also composed all the music to date, prepares subtitles and translations, and arranges production crews for our Nepal-based films. He scouts, guides, and introduces us to location shoots and interviewees throughout Nepal and increasingly works the camera. He even appears on camera in his guide role and as an occasional interviewee. All of our editing takes place at his Jubal Studio in Lalitpur.