Background
Julian Richards was born in Newport, South Wales, where his father owned DIY retail store Handiland.
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Julian Richards was born in Newport, South Wales, where his father owned DIY retail store Handiland.
In Newport, Julian attended Street Julian"s Comprehensive School and Gwent College of Higher Education where he studied Art & Design Foundation. In 1985 he attended the film school at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art where he directed two Super 8 mm shorts "Time" and "Infanticide" and two 16 mm shorts Pirates and Queen Sacrifice. In 1988, Richards attended the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, where he was invited to direct In with the Rent for British Broadcasting Corporation Wales and A Week in the Life a documentary about a cattle drover for S4C. In 1992, Richards graduated the NFTS with the 16 mm short Bad Company, broadcast on Independent Television Wales and selected to screen at American Film Institute Fest in Los Los Angeles
Education In 1992, Richards moved to Los Angeles where he worked for Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment directing an EPK for Slaughter of the innocents starring Scott Glenn and adapted Chris Westwood"s novel Calling All Monsters for Steven Spielberg"s Amblin Entertainment at Universal Studios. In 1994 he returned to the United Kingdom to direct A Mutter of Voices for BBC2 and twelve episodes of the Channel 4 soap Brookside, including the body under the patio episodes. A festival favourite winning several awards including the Melies Doctorate"Argent for Best European Fantasy Film 1997, Darklands was picked up for distribution by Pathé.
Richards followed up with Silent Cry starring Emily Woof, Douglas Henshall, Frank Finlay, Kevin Whately, Clive Russell and Craig Kelly, an urban thriller which received its United Kingdom premiere on Channel 5.
This video diary of a serial killer was theatrically released in the United States of America by Fangoria and in the United Kingdom by Tartan Films. Summer Scars was released in North America by TLA Releasing and in the United Kingdom by Soda Pictures.
In 2008, Richards directed Charles Dickens"s England featuring Sir Derek Jacobi, a documentary about the life of the 19th century author, which received a theatrical release in the United Kingdom by Guerilla Films before being broadcast by Sky Television. In 2011 Richards directed Shiver, a psychological horror starring Danielle Harris, John Jarratt, Casper Van Dien and Rae Dawn Chong, which was released in North America by Image Entertainment.