Ralph C. Schulz is a New York-based, quadrilingual Swiss-Peruvian-American film producer, director, actor, and distributor. His first film earned awards at festivals in NYC, LA, and Milan and gained distribution in Switzerland with Swiss Films. He is the co-founder and CEO of RISE FLIX, a distribution streaming platform that provides opportunities to emerging and established filmmakers to get their work discovered by industry professionals such as talent agencies, management companies, producers, festival curators, and financiers. He has helped various filmmakers get representation and hired by production companies, as well as feature scripts optioned, and he is the distributor behind a Midwestern Emmy-winning short and Academy Award short-listed short.
Mentored by industry veteran Jerald J. Silverhardt, Ralph’s credits include working on a documentary produced by three-time Oscar-winning producer Mark Harris, HBO’s “And Just Like That” and “The Chair Company”, and many others. He has worked in the industry with companies such as Tribeca Film Festival, Evoke Entertainment, Amasia Entertainment, Rakoom LLC, Studio Autonomous, Beecher Productions, and JP Literary. He is currently involved in producing six feature films at different stages of development.