With thirty-five years in the television industry, Mick Richards has established himself as an extraordinarily gifted documentary filmmaker, combining his talents as producer, director, writer, cinematographer, editor and composer.

Originally Richards created DeepLight Productions early in his career, focusing on corporate production, marketing and promotions, and creating a variety of locally themed television programs like Health Week, Dining Out and Sports Extra for ESPN-2.  He transitioned into the building, design and real estate industry with themed television programming like New Homes & Designs, Before You Buy That House and Open House, while serving as a Board Member for the Northeast Florida Builders Association (NEFBA).

Richards was soon contracted to produce a local home makeover television series for Builders Care, the non-profit arm of NEFBA that helps repair homes for the elderly and disabled. This powerfully emotional series featured families experiencing personal struggles and challenges, and how a community caring volunteers and construction industry came together creatively to aid these families through the work of Builders Care.

Through this unique experience, Richards developed a deeper connection and distinctive storytelling style depicting how the lives of hurting people could be transformed through the care and support a loving community. As a result, he began developing an exciting television series that served as a platform for extraordinary stories of community outreach and creative mission movements and, as a result, show how lives could be dramatically changed as a result. Those originally local shows were reformatted for a worldwide audience, and the Building a Difference documentary series was soon launched.

Richards started studying national and overseas missions’ movements through a partnership with a global mission organization, Go To Nations. This led to a 2-year exploration of mission movements and community transformation through development through Central America, East and West Africa, India, Thailand and the Philippines. The experience resulted in a media mission campaign that produced over 100 pieces of media, as well as the foundation for another season of shows for Building a Difference called “Beyond Your Borders.”

He then helped lead a small team of young missionaries on the Movements of Compassion Tour, an initiative of Building a Difference, which eventually lead them to serve in New York City for an extended period of time.

He quickly became well-connected and partnered with the important and creative NYC missions movements, Urban Hope NYC, CitiVision, Hope Day Network, Love New York – producing powerful emotional media for his Building a Difference television series while, at the same time, helping promote their causes and movements. Now established and respected with these NYC programs, he was able to film and build a massive library of powerful mission movements in NYC never before possible.

During that time, Richards was invited to serve as the Director of Saturate NY Metro, an organization with the vision to help unite multiple churches in every zip code in the NY Metro area with creative city-reaching strategies and free resources. This led to the opportunity to help develop the mission strategy and organizational structure for Jesus Week, a “saturation to transformation movement” focusing on the impact of creative city missions and community transformation strategies. As Co-Founder of the movement, he was soon invited to step into the role as Executive Director where he helped facilitate non-profit and community outreach events in the NY Metro area. While all the while, filming the team’s experiences, NYC mission partners and outreach events as stories for Building a Difference.

Continuing his study of missions, he was invited to step in as Media Coordinator and a Project Leader for Saturate USA, an organization with the goal to mobilize people as “neighborhood missionaries” to reach 120 million homes in America, he continued to create media and helped lead Saturate projects in New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago, Twin Cities, Pittsburgh, Florida. His teams helped facilitate churches in adopting zip codes, receiving free materials and developing strategies to strengthen local church and prayer coalitions.

He served as a Media Lead with the Firebase Movement in the Love New York and Love Chicago initiatives, adding film footage to the vault of creative mission movements for the Building a Difference series.  He also produced and directed a short film featuring the Love Chicago movement as an immediate result.

Richards spent 3 months in Chicago as Cinematographer for Chicago: America’s Hidden War, a documentary film that made the Oscars List in 2021. While there, he served as Media Coordinator for Jesus Summer, a 40-day outreach event in Chicago, capturing film footage of grassroots mission movements for a Chicago Missions Story as a part of Building a Difference.

Mick Richards currently works in partnership with many global non-profits and mission movements. He serves as Exec. Director/Communications of Jesus Week USA, in partnership with multiple EMMY winning television producer Bryan Hickox as Director/Producer of Building a Difference documentary series, Go To Nations media missionary, while developing new documentary film projects.

Richards spent 3 months in Chicago as Cinematographer for Chicago: America’s Hidden War, a documentary film that made the Oscars List in 2021. While there, he served as Media Coordinator for Jesus Summer, a 40-day outreach event in Chicago, capturing film footage of grassroots mission movements for a Chicago Missions Story as a part of Building a Difference.

Mick Richards currently works in partnership with many global non-profits and mission movements. He serves as Director/Producer of Building a Difference documentary series and Go To Nations media missionary while developing new documentary film projects.