Richard Raymond (filmmaker)

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Richard Raymond
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Richard Raymond is a British film director. He is known for films such as Heartless , Souls of Totality , A Million Eyes and Desert Dancer .

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Early life and education

Richard Raymond was born in London, England, into a Jewish Indian family. He loved films from a young age, and started making his own short films aged 15. [1]

Career

Raymond started his career as an assistant at Pinewood Film Studios, working under directors including Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough, and Neil Jordan. [2] He also worked on British television commercials for directors such as Tarsem, Daniel Barber, Tony Kaye, and Jonathan Glazer.[ citation needed ]

Raymond started his career in 2009 by producing Heartless , a British feature film starring Jim Sturgess, Eddie Marsan, and Timothy Spall. [3]

In 2015, he made his directorial debut with Desert Dancer , [4] [5] starring Freida Pinto. [6] The film was distributed by Relativity Media and opened the Santa Barbara Film Festival. [7] [8] It also screened Lincoln Center, the US Capitol, the United Nations, [9] and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, [10] where it received the Audience Award. Desert Dancer was also nominated for the Golden Frog film award at Camerimage and won Best Dance Choreography at the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards.

In 2018 Raymond made Souls of Totality [11] [12] with actress Tatiana Maslany, where he filmed a single-take sequence during an actual solar eclipse. [13] The film premiered at the 2018 HollyShorts Film Festival & won 12 Best Film awards, including Best Film of the Festival at Raindance Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award at HollyShorts Film Festival, and the Grand Prix at the Hiroshima International Film Festival. Richard won a Best Director award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for this film and was also short-listed for an Oscar.

He directed the short film A Million Eyes in 2019, [14] [15] [16] featuring Joe Morton and Katie Lowes. [17] A Million Eyes won 10 Best Film awards, [18] including the Grand Prix award at the Hiroshima International Film Festival [19] and the and a Special Jury Award at HollyShorts Film Festival, and was long-listed for the 2020 Oscars. [20]

In May 2019, a film directed by Raymond titled One Thousand Paper Cranes was announced to begin production, with Evan Rachel Wood playing Eleanor Coerr, who wrote the 1977 book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes about the story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945. [21]

Filmography

YearTitleWriterDirectorProducerRef.
2009 Heartless Yes
2015 Desert Dancer YesYes [22]
2018 Souls of Totality YesYes [23]
2019A Million EyesYesYes [24]
2025Heart of the Beast (upcoming)Yes [25]

Awards

YearTitleCategoryAwardsResultRef.
2018 Souls of Totality Best Director Edinburgh International Film Festival Won [26]
BestShort of the Festival Raindance Film Festival Won [27]
Best Grand Jury Prize HollyShorts Film Festival Won
Best Short of the Festival St. Louis International Film Festival Won
Grand Prix Best Film AwardHiroshima Film FestivalWon
Best Film of the FestivalNew Renaissance Film FestivalWon
Most Popular Film Rhode Island International Film Festival Won
Special MentionEdinburgh International Film FestivalWon
Maverick Spirit Award Cinequest Film Festival Won
Special Jury Award for Best CinematographyBend Film FestivalWon
Best Film Audience AwardEl Festival AmericanaWon
Best Northern FilmKlamath Independent Film FestivalWon
Best Actress Tatiana MaslanyLove Story Film FestivalWon
Best Actor Tom CullenWon
2019A Million EyesGrand Prix Best Film AwardHiroshima Film FestivalWon
Best Film of the Festival ME Film Festival Won
Best Short of the FestivalNew Renaissance Film FestivalWon
Best Film of the FestivalDam short International Film FestivalWon
Special Jury RecognitionHollyShorts Film FestivalWon
Best Short FilmGold Movie Awards LondonWon
Best CinematographyNew Renaissance Film FestivalWon
Best Young ActorWon
Best Film Jury PrizeProvidence Children's Film FestivalWon

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References

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  2. ↑ Raymond, Richard (25 November 2019). "Interview: Filmmaker Richard Raymond See Us With "A Millions Eyes"". indieactivity (Interview). Retrieved 15 June 2024.
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  9. ↑ "FEATURE: Dancer's story highlights importance of right to free expression | UN News". news.un.org. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
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  11. ↑ "Souls of Totality by Richard Raymond". Directors Notes. 16 July 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
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