Julian
Richards
was born in
Newport, South Wales in 1968. He began making films aged
thirteen using his father's 8mm camera.
In 1985 one of these
films The
Girl That Cried Wolf
was broadcast on The BBC2 Film Showcase. After an Arts
Foundation course at Gwent, Julian enrolled at
Bournemouth
Film
School to
pursue his career as a director.
At Bournemouth Julian
made two films; Pirates
which won The Starting Out Award at The Celtic Film
Festival before being broadcast by HTV and
Queen
Sacrifice which
won The Thames Television Award for Best Fiction Film at
The British Short Film Festival before being broadcast in
the BBC series Screenplay Firsts and Scene .
In 1988 Julian joined
The
National Film & Television
School where he
was approached, while still only a first year student, to
direct In
With The Rent
a Playhouse for BBC Wales. In 1991 he returned to
film school and completed his graduation film
Bad
Company which
was televised by HTV.
In 1992 Julian adapted
Chris Westwood's novel Calling
All Monsters
for Steven Spielberg's Amblin
Entertainment.
In 1994 he directed a
short docu/drama A
Mutter Of Voices
for Wall To Wall Television, twelve episodes of
Brookside
for Mersey
Television, and he devised a male stripper documentary
Showboys:
The Naked Truth
which screened in the BBC series, Video
Diaries.
In 1997 Julian wrote
and directed his debut feature film
Darklands
which won The
Melies D'Argent for Best
European
Fantasy Film before
receiving worldwide release through Metrodome, Pathe,
20th Century Fox, Filmax, Splendid etc.
In 2002 Julian directed
the conspiracy thriller Silent
Cry which won a
Gold
Remi at
Worldfest Houston, recieved its network premiere on
Channel
Five and is being
sold worlwide by Screen
Media Ventures.
In 2003 he set up
Prolific
Films
where he produced and directed
The
Last Horror Movie which
won fourteen awards including a second
Melies
for Best European Fantasy
Film
before recieving worldwide release through Tartan, Hart
Sharp, Thinkfilm, Nordisk, Legend etc
In 2006
Julian produced and directed
Summer
Scars
which is currently in post production.
Representation
(USA):
Michael
Lewis & Associates
- 2506 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Tel
310-199-3999
mlewis2506@aol.com
Gary
Ungar/Exile
Entertainment -
732 El Medio Ave, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. Tel
310-573-1523
exile_ent@yahoo.com
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