Richard Connew
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Born in Yorkshire his first notable success was with a short film "Lots of Love Harry" which was a top 3 finalist in the Bablegum international film festival 2008. Swiftly followed by short film "Blitz" in 2008, short film "The Bus" 2009, short film "Proposal" in 2010.
In 2010 he created "Platform 2c" an online 3D soap TV mini soap series for the web (the first 3D soap series on the web in the world). He created 5 Platform 2c mini online TV series from 2010 to 2012.
Late 2012 he switched his direction to creating 3D feature films. The first of which was "Hollows Wood" 3D completed in 2013 (screened 12 times over Christmas 2014 on Dallas TV USA), "Jailhouse Dog" 3D completed in 2014 (28K hits in its first two weeks), "Sisterhood of the Red Garter" completed in 2015 (dipped a toe into experimental comedy).
During this time Richard excelled at his creative use of 3D and became a competent and well know 3D stereographer not to mention director, producer and writer.
Late 2015 he decided to come back to more established drama feature films and started filming "Crooked Billet" (mystery intrigue) which being filmed a small scene at a time took two years to make being completed in June 2017. This film has numerous awards the most notable of which was the "Special Award" for 3D feature films at the 3D Korean International Film Festival in November 2017.
In 2018 he completed his 5th feature film CROOKED BILLET II 3D and episode 1 of RISK TAKERS a TV pilot he worked/helped his wife Alyson Connew with.