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Richard T Kelly has adapted the novel by Russell Celyn Jones, TEN SECONDS FROM THE SUN, for BBC Films, and is writing an original feature script, LUCIE GUNN, under the UK Film Council's First Feature Film Development Programme. His feature script, CURFEW, is currently in development with Ugly Duckling Films, in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission. He is also writing INTERCOM, a feature film based on a short film written by Mark Gutteridge and Aidan Lean, for Shudder Films/Northern Film & Media. Richard was recently selected for the Touchpaper TV/Channel 4 Coming Up scheme for his short film, ECLIPSE, and completed an attachment to the National Theatre Studio. He is now writing a commissioned play, THE BLACK EDEN, for Newcastle's Live Theatre. Previously, Richard worked as the director of a theatre company and for the TV production department of the British Film Institute. From 1998 to 2001 he was a programme consultant and presenter of on-stage events at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2000 he wrote and presented the Channel 4 documentary THE NAME OF THIS FILM IS DOGME 95. He is a regular contributor on film matters to newspapers, magazines, TV and radio, and has authored three acclaimed ‘oral history’ books on film and filmmakers, all published by Faber: ALAN CLARKE (1998), THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS DOGME 95 (2000), and the authorised biography SEAN PENN: HIS LIFE AND TIMES (2004). Richard recently edited TEN BAD DATES WITH DE NIRO, published in October 2007. His debut novel, CRUSADERS, a story of crime, politics and religion set in his native Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was published by Faber to excellent reviews, and is currently under option to Ruby Films/Channel 4. |