Richard Hull (executive)

Richard Hull is an American media and entertainment executive, and film and television financier/producer. He is the Founder and CEO of Pongalo (formerly known as Latin Everywhere), which controls one of the largest libraries of Spanish-language content in the world.[1]

He has led to the creation of and produced more than 25 films and television shows, including She's All That starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook. In 2011, he won the NAACP Image Award for his film For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots, which he produced with Halle Berry with an introduction by Colin Powell.

In 2011, he won the NAACP Image Award for his film For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots, which he produced with Halle Berry with an introduction by Colin Powell.

In 2000, he and Matthew McConaughey produced The Story of Darrell Royal about legendary University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal. The film featured President George W. Bush, Willie Nelson, Ed Marinaro, Keith Jackson, Mack Brown and Tom Hicks.[2]

He contributed an essay to the book Dancing with Digital Natives: Staying in Step with the Generation That's Transforming the Way Business Is Done. The book won the 2012 Axiom Bronze Award[3] and it was a 2011 USA Awards Best Books finalist.[4]

He has authored numerous articles about media and entertainment for eContent Magazine[5] and he gave the keynote address at the Buying and Selling eContent Executive Conference in 2010.[6] He is a frequent speaker at the Digital Hollywood conference.[7]

  1. ^ Spangler, Todd (October 8, 2014). "Hispanic Digital-Media Company 'Latin Everywhere' Formed via GoTV, Latin Anywhere Merger". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  2. ^ "The Story of Darrell Roya". IMDB.
  3. ^ "Announcing Results of the 5th Annual Axiom Business Book Awards". Independent Publisher.
  4. ^ "Dancing With Digital Natives". Ethix. 3 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Authors: Richard Hull". eContent Magazine.
  6. ^ "Reigniting the Content Economy". Buying and Selling eContent (Conference). Scottsdate, AZ. 18 April 2010. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Digital Hollywood".