August 2022 | Vol. 02 Iss. 08
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BOUNTIFUL’S RICHARD HATCH TAKES A CLOSE-UP OF HIS LIFE
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By Peri Kinder | peri.k@davisjournal.com
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ountiful resident Richard Hatch has not taken the conventional path. As a young boy with a father in the U.S. Air Force, he lived overseas in places like England and Turkey before his family settled in Bountiful, a city built by his pioneer ancestors. At Bountiful High School, where he served as student body president in 1970, Hatch studied Arabic for three years and learned to love performing in the school’s theater productions. After a two-year church mission in Lebanon, he enrolled in a new program at BYU for professional filmmakers, run by an Emmy Award-winning director from New York. “Stage was my deal, but I made the transition from stage to filmmaking as a necessity to make a living,” Hatch said. “When I graduated, I had to go either the Hollywood route, which I tried, but I saw associates go off the deep end in Hollywood.” Instead, Hatch got a job creating commercial films for companies in the new Silicon Valley. He found himself in the midst of the high-tech industry, making films for Intel, IBM and Apple. Hatch stayed there for five years before becoming an independent producer in California, a job that allowed him the opportunity to work from home. “I could raise my kids and have flexibility,” he said. “I loved working from home. As a result, I’ve become very close to my family and feel very successful with what they’ve become and what they’ve done with their lives, and my ability to be involved in their lives, and now my grandkids’.” After 25 years, Hatch was offered a job with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, doing filmmaking projects all over the world. He moved his family back to Bountiful and spent 12 years creating documentaries, Bible story recreations and films about the history of the Saints. Continued page 5
Richard Hatch makes a living telling stories through his documentaries and historical films.
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