Known for Production
Riki Rushing is a champion of the filmic arts in Texas, serving on the board of the Austin Film Society. Riki is the Executive Producer of several independent films, including Death in Texas, QT8 - The First Eight, Dirty Weekend, and Radley, helping local filmmakers realize their vision. Her movies have been screened as far as Cannes and as close to home as SXSW and Mammoth Film Festivals. Riki recently hosted the Rockport Film Festival at Rancho Tiki Studios on the Texas Coast, and owns the production company A Huevos Studios. Next projects include an upcoming Broadway musical based on The Outsiders and a sequel to her first short film "Terminator Ugly." Riki has a background in graphic design and gives her time generously as foster parent to dogs through Cuz I Matter Animal Rescue and by helping to reintegrate homeless into society as a board member of Trinity Center. When she's not producing films, she's a bon vivant on the Austin scene, with investments in several local restaurants and businesses.
Birthplace
Austin, Texas, USA
Filmography
5 films


Revolution's Daughter
2026
country: United States
A deep dive into the lives and experiences of those impacted by the Fidel Castro era in Cuba.


The Assessment
2025 · 1h 54m
country: Germany
In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.


Runaway Radio
2024 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
Once upon a time, before our lives went fully digital, radio entertained, informed and dictated what was cool through theater of the mind - and with that Houston's 101 KLOL played a big role in the lives of rock radio listeners. The forthcoming documentary "Runaway Radio" focuses on the legendary outfit - starting in 1970 as a progressive rock station, where DJs played whatever they wanted, to how it evolved into one of several wild Album Oriented Rock (AOR) stations across the country, where on-air personalities were sometimes bigger than the music itself. In the film acclaimed musicians such as Lyle Lovett, ZZ Top's Dusty Hill, Melissa Etheridge and Sammy Hagar along with top radio DJs from across the US reflect on how the medium changed their lives and the lives of devoted listeners. Yet in the end, changes and pressures from Washington, the music industry and Silicon Valley led to the station's, and much of the format's, demise in the 2000s.


Frank and Penelope
2022 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.


QT8: The First Eight
2019 · 1h 43m
country: United States
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.