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Richard B. Phillips (Born December 8, 1969) is an American screenwriter and producer from in Los Angeles, California.

Early life and education Phillips was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Kensington, Maryland. After graduating from St. John's College High School in 1988, Phillips attended and graduated from the University of South Carolina B.A. in History in 1992. Phillips wrote the original screenplay Eden, a feature film that won the Audience Award at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival and winner of the 1st recipient of Reel NW Award, Runner-Up for the Grand Jury Award at the 2012 a Seattle International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and Best Film at the Milan international Film Festival in 2013. The idea for the film came into being when Phillips contacted Chong Kim after reading a newspaper article about her account of being sold into and escaping a domestic human trafficking ring. Phillips then proposed the idea of writing a screenplay based on Kim's story. Kim agreed, and the two of them set about writing a story for the film. That story was later turned into a screenplay by Phillips. Producer Colin Plank then hired Megan Griffiths to revise the script, and later hired Griffiths to direct the film Phillips also wrote the animation series for the Korean comic book hero, the Kimchi Warrior (www.kimchiwarrior.com) was a co-writer of the film The Last Eve, and has written cultural programs for PBS in Southern California. http://www.miff.it/nominees_eden-rphillips.php?lang=1