Don Schechter
Producer
Other Roles: Director, Independent Filmmaker
Areas of Focus: Documentaries, Feature Films
Organization: Charles River Media
Website: https://donschechter.com/
Biography
Don Schechter is the Founder and CEO of Charles River Media, Inc. (CRMi), a Massachusetts-based production studio and creative agency founded in 2004, and is a part-time professor of the practice in the Film and Media Studies program at Tufts University. He is the author of the bestselling novel, Ascendants (2026), and wrote and directed The Ascendants Anthology, a series of short films expanding the world of the novel. He served as a producer and creative consultant on the thriller The Arborist.
Films
Ascendants Anthology (2016)
Role: Independent Filmmaker
When mankind’s faith in the afterlife is replaced with scientific certainty, the divide between those ordained to eternity and those to oblivion lays the groundwork for this socio-theological thriller, where both salvation and damnation rest in exclusively mortal hands. Set in a near and theocratic dystopian future, Ascendants follows the rise of an agnostic genetic underclass, deemed unfit for a life in an increasingly violent, highly segregated society. The Ascendants Anthology is a series of short films that take place during key events of a future mythology.
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