Richard produced The Ritual, for US director David Bruckner in 2017. The film opened in the UK in October on 300+ prints. eOne fully financed and Richard produced alongside Jonathan Cavendish & Andy Serkis’ The Imaginarium. This genre film was shot entirely in Romania. Sierra/Affinity/WME sold the film to Netflix at TIFF 2017 for RoW. The Ritual is now in profit.
Until March 2016 Richard managed the production funding for Creative England and, since joining the company in 2013, backed fourteen fiction films and nine feature docs. His investments include Andrew Haig’s second feature, 45 Years, winner of two Golden Bears at the Berlinale 2015 and an Oscar nomination for best actress, amongst many other accolades. He also invested in other multi-award-winning including God’s Own Country, Jawbone and Notes On Blindness.
Keeping Rosy (2013), starring Maxine Peake (Silk) and Blake Harrison (Inbetweeners) was released with Picture House in 2014 and was nominated for BIFA‘s Raindance Award. Steve Reeves, its debut director, was also nominated at Fantasporto 2015 where Maxine Peake won the best actress award.
Richard produced Jadoo, Amit Gupta’s second feature in 2012. Jadoo was the closing night film of the Kulinaris section of the Berlinale and the San Sebastian 2013.
In 2011 he produced Amit Gupta’s Resistance, based on the award-winning novel by Owen Sheers. The film starred Andrea Riseborough (Birdman), Michael Sheen and Sharon Morgan - who won the Best Actress prize at the BAFTA Cymru awards 2012.
Richard produced Eden Lake (2007) with Christian Colson (Slumdog Millionaire). The Weinstein Company released the film in the US and Pathe sold it worldwide. Written and directed by James Watkins (The Woman In Black), starring Kelly Reilly and Oscar-nominee Michael Fassbender.
Eden Lake won the audience award at Sitges, the International Fantasy Film Award at the Fantasporto and the Best Horror award at the Empire Film Awards.
Earlier in his career, Richard co-wrote and produced Stefan Schwartz’s award-winning Shooting Fish, starring Kate Beckinsale. The film grossed over £4m in the UK alone. Richard then went on to produce Kirk Jones’ Waking Ned, which grossed $26m in the US and a further $25m+ worldwide. Waking Ned won Richard a nomination for a Producer’s Guild of America award and both Shooting Fish and Waking Ned are posting net profits.
His first film Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, starred Peter Capaldi (Dr Who), as well as Jeremy Northam and Simon Callow. It won the London Film Festival Audience Award as well as Scottish BAFTA’s for Best Film and Best Actor.
Between 1999 - 2001 Richard managed Civilian Content Plc, a film production, sales and finance company listed on AIM. During that time Civilian acquired and/or financed approximately a dozen films, including 24 Hour Party People and Bend It Like Beckham. In addition Richard led the team that placed over a third of the company’s share capital with blue-chip City institutions.
Richard was a co-founder of the trade body The New Producer’s Alliance, serving a year as its Co-Chairman. For three years he was the Vice-Chairman for Film at PACT, the UK’s Producers Alliance for Cinema and TV.
Richard has lectured at the National Film & Television School, European Film College, Royal Holloway MA Screenwriting course and for AdvancedProducing.com. He graduated from York University with an honours degree in philosophy and was selected to be on the inaugural ACE (Ateliers de Cinema European) program
Until March 2016 Richard managed the production funding for Creative England and, since joining the company in 2013, backed fourteen fiction films and nine feature docs. His investments include Andrew Haig’s second feature, 45 Years, winner of two Golden Bears at the Berlinale 2015 and an Oscar nomination for best actress, amongst many other accolades. He also invested in other multi-award-winning including God’s Own Country, Jawbone and Notes On Blindness.
Keeping Rosy (2013), starring Maxine Peake (Silk) and Blake Harrison (Inbetweeners) was released with Picture House in 2014 and was nominated for BIFA‘s Raindance Award. Steve Reeves, its debut director, was also nominated at Fantasporto 2015 where Maxine Peake won the best actress award.
Richard produced Jadoo, Amit Gupta’s second feature in 2012. Jadoo was the closing night film of the Kulinaris section of the Berlinale and the San Sebastian 2013.
In 2011 he produced Amit Gupta’s Resistance, based on the award-winning novel by Owen Sheers. The film starred Andrea Riseborough (Birdman), Michael Sheen and Sharon Morgan - who won the Best Actress prize at the BAFTA Cymru awards 2012.
Richard produced Eden Lake (2007) with Christian Colson (Slumdog Millionaire). The Weinstein Company released the film in the US and Pathe sold it worldwide. Written and directed by James Watkins (The Woman In Black), starring Kelly Reilly and Oscar-nominee Michael Fassbender.
Eden Lake won the audience award at Sitges, the International Fantasy Film Award at the Fantasporto and the Best Horror award at the Empire Film Awards.
Earlier in his career, Richard co-wrote and produced Stefan Schwartz’s award-winning Shooting Fish, starring Kate Beckinsale. The film grossed over £4m in the UK alone. Richard then went on to produce Kirk Jones’ Waking Ned, which grossed $26m in the US and a further $25m+ worldwide. Waking Ned won Richard a nomination for a Producer’s Guild of America award and both Shooting Fish and Waking Ned are posting net profits.
His first film Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, starred Peter Capaldi (Dr Who), as well as Jeremy Northam and Simon Callow. It won the London Film Festival Audience Award as well as Scottish BAFTA’s for Best Film and Best Actor.
Between 1999 - 2001 Richard managed Civilian Content Plc, a film production, sales and finance company listed on AIM. During that time Civilian acquired and/or financed approximately a dozen films, including 24 Hour Party People and Bend It Like Beckham. In addition Richard led the team that placed over a third of the company’s share capital with blue-chip City institutions.
Richard was a co-founder of the trade body The New Producer’s Alliance, serving a year as its Co-Chairman. For three years he was the Vice-Chairman for Film at PACT, the UK’s Producers Alliance for Cinema and TV.
Richard has lectured at the National Film & Television School, European Film College, Royal Holloway MA Screenwriting course and for AdvancedProducing.com. He graduated from York University with an honours degree in philosophy and was selected to be on the inaugural ACE (Ateliers de Cinema European) program