About

Eric Richter is a director and editor based in Chicago, recognized for a raw, organic approach to filmmaking. Through his production company, Channel 13, he creates films, music videos, documentaries, and commercials. He’s directed videos and collaborated with Grammy-nominated and award-winning artists such as Evanescence, Knocked Loose, and Will Putney, and has worked with brands including Crate & Barrel, the NBA, and Ulta Beauty.

Client List: Crate and Barrel, CB2, Restoration Hardware, National Basketball Association (NBA), Danny Wimmer Presents, Ulta Beauty, Haworth Inc., 300 Entertainment, NorthShore University HealthSystem, PharmaCann, Verilife Dispensary, Century Media, Victory Records, Nuclear Blast, Anti- Records.

Bands: Evanescence, Knocked Loose, Lorna Shore, Fit For An Autopsy, Vein.fm, Better Lovers, Jesus Piece, Full of Hell, Dying Fetus, Spite, Counterparts, END, Poison The Well, Gel, Refused, Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR / EDITOR

  • Dying Wish “I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)”

  • Poison The Well “Trembling Level”

  • Haarper “Born From The Dirt”

  • Counterparts “A Martyr Left Behind / No Lamb Was Lost”

  • Koyo “Mile A Minute”

  • Fit For An Autopsy “Red Horizon”

  • Knocked Loose “Moss Covers All / Take Me Home”

  • Haarper “Barricade”

  • Better Lovers “A White Horse Covered In Blood”

  • Fit For An Autopsy “Hostage”

  • Knocked Loose (ft. Poppy) “Suffocate”

  • Gel “Mirage”

  • Full of Hell “Doors to Mental Agony”

  • Evanescence “Yeah Right”

  • Lorna Shore “Welcome Back O’ Sleeping Dreamer”

  • Koyo “Life’s a Pill”

  • End “Gaping Wounds of Earth”

  • Knocked Loose ‘Deep in the Willow / Everything is Quiet Now”

  • Koyo “Anthem”

  • Better Lovers “30 Under 13”

  • Haarper feat. Ramirez “Dead Space”

  • Haarper “Not Enough Mana”

  • Jesus Piece “Gates of Horn”

  • Jesus Piece “An Offering To The Night”

  • Dying Fetus “Unbridled Fury”

  • Haarper “Centipede”

  • Spite “Dedicated to The Flesh”

  • Vatican “Reverence”

  • OMEN XIII “Live Fast Die Slow”

  • Vein.FM “Hellnight”*

  • Vein.FM “Wavery”

  • Spite “Caved In”

  • Fit For An Autopsy “In Shadows"

  • Haarper “Cinnamon”

  • Spite “Made To Please”

  • Great American Ghost “Kingmaker”

  • Haarper “Bleach”

  • Fit For An Autopsy “Far From Heaven”

  • Vatican “Fractured God”

  • END “Hesitation Wounds”

  • Fit For An Autopsy “Fear Tomorrow”

  • END “Pariah”

  • END “Covet Not”

  • Vein.FM “Demise Automation”

  • Vein.FM “Virus://Vibrance”

  • Islander “Coconut Dracula”

  • Spite “The Offering”

  • Spite “Judgement Day”

  • Great American Ghost “Altar of Snakes”

  • Great American Ghost “Prison of Hate”

  • Welles “How Sweet It Is”

  • Nonpoint - “Chaos & Earthquakes"

  • My Ticket Home “Hyperreal”*

  • Nonpoint “Generation Idiot”

  • Reverend Horton Heat “Let Me Teach You How To Eat”

  • White Noise Owl “Something”

  • The Color Morale “Between You and Eye”

  • The Tossers “Emerald City”

  • Emmure “Nemesis”*

  • Emmure “MDMA”*

  • Emmure “E”*

  • God Forbid “Where We Come From”

  • Close Your Eyes “Valleys”

  • HedPe “Pay Me”

  • Sister Sin “Fight Song”

  • Sister Sin “Hearts Of Cold”

  • Reverend Horton Heat “Scenery Going By”

  • The Royalty “I Want You”

  • The Scenic “Uh Oh”

  • Wretched “Cranial Infestation”

  • Wretched “Wetiko”

    *CINEMATOGRAPHER / EDITOR / PRODUCER only

MUSIC VIDEO ANIMATOR &/or EDITOR only

  • Daniel Andriano - Sea Level

  • Joyce Manor “Constant Headache”

  • El Michels Affair “Murkit Gem”

  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Killing of Georgie (Part III)”

  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones “I Don’t Believe in Anything”

  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones “The Final Parade”

  • Lil Lotus “Me”

  • Lil Lotus “Rigor Mortis”

  • Joyce Manor “House Warning Party”

  • Guccihighwaters “needle & thread”

  • Descendents “Who We Are”

  • The Frights “Me and We and I”

  • Thrice “The Grey” & “The Dark”

  • Joyce Manor “Million Dollars to Kill Me”

  • P.O.D. “This Goes Out To You”

  • Refused “Francafrique”

  • Sister Sin “End Of The Line”

  • Avion Roe “Carving Flowers”

  • Snow White’s Poison Bite “Will You Meet Me In The Graveyard”

  • Letlive “Good Mourning America” Song Stream

  • Carnifex “Dead But Dreaming”

  • Ill Nino “The Depression”

  • These Hearts “Miserable”

  • Sister Sin “Rock N Roll”

  • Fall City Fall “Love Birds”* 

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Director / Editor “Evanescence Latin America Tour Diaries Pt. 1-10” 2023
Director / Editor “Haarper TTOAC Tour” (Tour Videos) 2022 & 2023
Consultant / Cinematographer / Editor “Crate & Barrel / CB2 Branded Content” (Web), 2017-23
Producer / Cinematographer / Editor “Ulta Beauty Branded Content” (Web), 2018-21
Videographer / Editor for Welles (Social Media), 2018-20
Director / Editor “2350 Last Call: The Neo Story” (Documentary), 2017
Director / Editor “Roach Beach: A Television Program” (Music Television), 2017
Editor “Basically Happy” (TV Pilot), 2017
Director / Editor “Blackouts” (TV Pilot), 2015

Festival Screenings: The Beverly Hills Film Festival (2019), Sound Unseen (2018), Indy Film Fest (2018), Chicago International Movie & Music Festival (2017), New York Television Festival (2017 & 2015), Chicago Midwest Film Fest (2017 & 2015), Cayman Island International Film Festival (2016), Dark Carnival Film Festival (2007), New York City Horror Film Festival (2005), Dragon*Con Film Fest (2005)