Richard Lerner


Richard Lerner started making 16mm short films in the late sixties, worked on several successful commercial features in the seventies, and has been involved in documentaries since the mid-eighties.  His Beat Generation documentary, What Happened to Kerouac?, is widely acclaimed and has been distributed around the world.  Now available...A newly remastered What Happened to Kerouac? DVD with 17 bonus extras featuring rare and unseen footage of Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Paul Krassner, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Steve Allen, Ann Charters, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Herbert Huncke, Carolyn Cassady, Paul Gleason, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Kerouac Parker, Jan Kerouac, William Buckley, and Father Spike Morissette.
His latest documentary Out of Europe is now available from Sisu Entertainment.