Richard Crawford

Richard Crawford has been writing since the early 1990’s, first as a novelist and latterly as a screenwriter. As well as working on his own projects as writer, he founded the successful Belfast writers group ScreenwritersInk and guided the group through the production of 14 ten minute short films in Project Norma. Richard has taken two different projects to the prestigious MOONSTONE Screenwriters Lab, in 2004 and 2006, and in 2007 was the second Moonstone alumni to return to a lab as an advisor. In 2007 he attended the Sparks workshop with BBC RADIO DRAMA.

FILM

LE PETIT GUERRIER Feature film rewrite with MC4 Company in France

DOROTHY MILLS Screenplay rewrite for Octagon Films

McCARTHY’S WAR
Feature script in development with Bandigital Ltd. target production date March 2009 in Bosnia.

CHATAKWA FALLS
A feature horror script set in the United States but aimed at production in Northern Ireland (formerly titled Sweeney’s Diner) in development (Geronimo films). Target production date summer 2007 in Northern Ireland.

THE DIRTY WAR
A feature screenplay set in Northern Ireland, in development (Bandigital Ltd)

JAZZUS
Slovakian/Northern Ireland feature film, Northern Ireland producers Borderline films. Script polish.

THE ABDUCTION CLUB
Pathe 2002 (92 mins), a historical adventure set in 18th century Ireland. Co-written (with Bill Britten).

TELEVISION

GAMBLERS

Two part television drama commissioned by RedRay Productions.

EUROPA MEWS

Lead writer on an experimental team writing project aimed at creating a returnable drama series/soap based and set in Northern Ireland. In development with Tony Rowe of About Face Productions.

PROSE FICTION

Novels:
THE MINSTREL BOY Heinemann Ltd London (hardcover) 1994
Mandarin London (paperback) 1995

FALL WHEN HIT Heinemann Ltd London (hardcover) 1993
Mandarin London (paperback) 1994

Short Stories:

AUTUMN RAIN Heinemann’s Best Short Stories of 1988

PRODUCTION

Executive Producer, Project Norma 2006:

SHADOW ten minute short, NORMA 2006
MY SHIP IS COMIN’ IN ten minute short, NORMA 2006
PENNED ten minute short, NORMA 2006
TRADE fourteen minute short, NORMA 2006
DEALER’S CHOICE ten minute short, NORMA 2006
GYPSY EYES five minute short, NORMA 2006
MORTON’S FORT ten minute short, NORMA 2006

Executive Producer, Project Norma 2005:

COVET seven minute short, NORMA 2005
THE HEAD-CASE ten minute short, NORMA 2005
RACE TO MIDNIGHT ten minute short, NORMA 2005
JUNCTURE ten minute short, NORMA 2005
FARM ten minute short, NORMA 2005
THE REVIVALIST ten minute short, NORMA 2005
THE BEACH ten minute short, NORMA 2005