Newhouse School of Communications

Richard L Breyer
Professor, TRF
Television_Radio_Film

Office: Newhouse 3 Rm. 451
Telephone: 443-9249
Email: rlbreyer@syr.edu

Richard Breyer teaches courses in production, writing, and Global Media. His speciality is the documentary and he is co-director of the Masters Program in The Documentary Film and History.

Professor Breyer has been a Fullbright Scholar to India twice and helped launch one of India's prime cable companies, SET, Sony Entertainment Television. He has written essays and articles for NPR, Hemisphere, Marsala, Global Perspectives, and The World and I. Many of these essays are about his experiences in India.

Breyer has produced a number of documentaries - Freedom's Call about two The Civil Rights Movement, North of 49 about the Sikh community in Upstate New York, Kasthuri, about an Indian movie star; Esta Esperanza, about post-civil war El Salvador; Dancing on Mother Earth, about singer Joanne Sheandoah; A Toast to Sweet Old Age, about the long-living in the Republic of Georgia; Faces in a Famine, about the Ethiopian Famine. His documentaries are distributed through PBS and Filmmakers Library.

He has written a textbook, Making Television Programs: A Professional Approach, and articles on these subjects.

Expertise:

• Documentary
• Global Communication
• India Cable Television
• Post Civil War El Salvador