Richard Skaggs is an American film Producer / Writer who started his career in the mail room at Sam Goldwyn Studios, and worked for Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Studios, Producers Studios and MGM Sony Studios, in 1974 Skaggs gave birth to his own production company Omstar Production on the Sam Goldwyn Studio lot. Omstar grew internationally encompassing a motion picture division, a television division and a commercial and industrial division producing both commercial and government films. It is here, through his association with the motion picture industry that Skaggs began his involvement in worldwide environmental issues, and, through filmmaking, he has been able to address many environmental problems that promote environmental causes. For example, As the producer of the environmental film in 1976 "Bill and Sara's Treasure Chest" where his film depicted the importance of recycling, and showed how industry and the environmental community could work together. He won the Virgin Island International Film Festival award for this film. Skaggs production credits include films such as Claretta, Kings Man Check, The Sky is Falling, Hollywood - Take 2. For his work on the Sky is Falling which was on the subject of acid rain Skaggs's won several awards such as the film of Excellence Award from the film Advisory Board, the Silver Halo Award from the California motion picture council and in 1983 the Moscow Film Festival award. This film was given wide acceptance by the United States Senate, being personally sponsored by senator Alan Cranston and has been shown in several countries throughout the world. Skaggs has also produced "The Mousercise" for the Disney Channel and the Disco Game show" for television. Skaggs was also a prize-winning producer for Walt Disney and produce among other things, the film for the "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" for Walt Disney's Epcot center in Orlando Florida as well as other productions for the 26 pavilions at Epcot Center. Including those sponsored by Kraft Food, General Motors, Eastman Kodak, Exxon, GE, World of Energy Pavilion, Land Pavilion, World of Motion Pictures Pavilion, Imagination Pavilion AT&T's Spaceship Earth Pavilion and the "Meet the World" Pavilion at Tokyo Disneyland. Richard has worked with Francis Ford Coppola and Gerard Schurmann, Al Giddings, Frank Johnson. He worked extensively overseas in several countries as both producer and director and with various filming techniques involving Circle vision camera, Imax 70mm, 35mm 16mm and video