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About Richard Zampella

Richard Zampella is the Producer of Cooper and Hemingway the True Gen. Other producer credits include; Sergeant York: Of God and Country for Warner Home Video which was narrated by Liam Neeson. In 2023, Zampella Produced and Edited Inside High Noon for PBS which was narrated by Mathhew Rhys which has an introduction by President Bill Clinton. In July of 2023 he produced and edited on a documentary about on American Public Television about writer Elmore Leonard entitled: But Don't Try to Write which is narrated by Campbell Scott. Both documentaries are airing nationally on Public Television in the US and in Europe on PBS America.

Zampella founded Transmultimedia, Inc., a creative services agency with offices in New York City, New Jersey and on Long Island. The True Gen focuses on 20 year friendship between writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper. and received a Critic’s Pick from The New York Times in October of 2013.

Richard Zampella is the owner and operator of Idylease, A Historic Landmark and former resort hotel located in Newfoundland, NJ. He also owns and operates Skipperdee's Ice Cream Shop in Point Lookout, NY which was voted in 2017 as the Best Ice Cream Shop on Long Island.

In 2018, Richard Zampella designed, built and re-opened the market Nicholas and Carmela Merola opened in 1930 in the tiny Long Island hamlet of Point Lookout, NY. The Food Mill in Point Lookout, NY is a nostalgic market that celebrates personalized service from a different era in an atmophere that is both comfortable and inviting.

Zampella supports many non-for-profit organizations and serves as President of the Point Lookout Chamber of Commerce in Nassau County. Richard Zampella also serves on the Executive Board of the Point Lookout Historical Society.