“Stanley and Iris” starring Jane Fonda and Robert DeNiro, “The Freshman” starring Marlon Brando and Mathew Broderick, “Suspect” starring Cher and Dennis Quaid, SCTV and many more productions for major Hollywood studios.

The Magder’s also founded Motion Picture Video Corporation, the first electronic post-production facility of its kind in North America and Magder/ADN Pictures, a film sales and distribution company responsible for acquiring foreign rights to such films as: “The Milagro Beanfield War”, directed by Robert Redford, “The Great Outdoors”, starring Dan Akroyd and John Candy, “Almost an Angel”, starring Paul Hogan and “Flight of the Intruder”, starring Willem Defoe and Danny Glover.

For many years, Rick has been developing and producing television, feature films, special interest programs and digital media. Some of his projects include: “The Galucci Brothers” starring Tony Sirico and Bobby Costansa; Mikhail Barishnikov’s “Stories from My Childhood,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Rob Lowe, Shirley Maclaine, and Gene Hackman; Award winning “Home Safe” starring Martin Short. His documentary work led him to interviewing such politicians as President Carter, President Ford, Hillary Clinton, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Jean Kirkpatrick and many others.

Rick’s desire to use his talents to better the Jewish community resulted in him creating the department of Media and Broadcasting for the Orthodox Union where he developed a variety of educational programs including: “The Prince of Egypt Family Haggadah” in association with DreamWorks SKG, and “Tinker Shop Tales”, an animated show that teaches positive character traits and values to children. As the director of OU.org, one of the largest websites in the Jewish world, Rick was responsible for quadrupling the traffic to the website to between
400,000-500,000 unique visitors each month.

In conjunction with the Afikim Foundation and the Israeli government, he produced and directed the documentary film “Everyday a Memory,” a film designed to connect people around the world with the memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers. In conjunction with the film, a website, honorisraelsfallen.com was created to inspire people to do an act of kindness in their memory. In its first 60 days, over 40,000 acts of kindness around the world were recorded.

Rick contributed content for a similar project in which a Torah scroll was written and donated to ZAKA an organization of volunteers that “cleans up” the aftermath of terror attacks in Israel and is deployed around the world to help with evacuation and recovery after natural disasters. People participated by purchasing a letter in a “virtual” Torah scroll. Letters were “paid for” by performing acts of kindness. Over 30,000 acts of kindness were performed around the world.

Rick is currently working on a new movie called “The Jerusalem Stone” which focuses on the world’s historical obsession for control of Jerusalem and specifically the Temple Mount. To get the project going, Rick launched a campaign on kickstarter.com. The Jerusalem Stone, made it to the site’s front page of documentaries ahead of 4000 other films and exceeded its funding goal.

Rick is the founder of the online learning platform JUniversity.co. He has also been instrumental in creating a gap year training program in Israel accredited by Hebrew U and he founded WIZDM.org, a powerful community/social platform for Jewish college students that connects them to each other, provides mentorship and engages them in meaningful learning opportunities and inspiring community events as well as training designed to turn them into influential social
entrepreneurs.

Rick has also just finished writing his first book. “We Are God’s Partners: Caring for our World in the Story of Creation,” is a children’s book that teaches environmental stewardship through the biblical story of creation. It’s currently available on Amazon.