Richard Raddon joined the Los Angeles Film Festival as its Festival Director in 2000. Since that time, the Festival has grown from a 5-day event with an attendance of 22,000 to a nationally recognized 10-day event in June with an audience of over 60,000 visitors.

Before joining the Los Angeles Film Festival, Mr. Raddon worked as an independent producer; his credits include: A Slipping Down Life, starring Guy Pearce, Lily Taylor, and Bruno Kirby, which premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Lions Gate; Shooting Lily, which garnered the grand prize at the 1997 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin Texas; ...And God Spoke, which was released theatrically by Live Entertainment in 1994.

Other producing credits include the 1995 foreign film, The Woman in the Moon, starring Maria De Madieros, Brooke Smith, and Portia De Rossi; music videos for the Sony Work Group; as well as numerous short films. Mr. Raddon began his career as an assistant to writer/director/producer John Hughes in Chicago.