Production

Richard Bracewell, Director

“Photography is truth. And cinema is truth 24 frames a second.” (Jean-Luc Godard)

“Films aren’t by definition about truth – if you shoot and screen a film, it won’t automatically show the truth – but the filmmaker should aspire to show the truth.”

“Set up two truthful characters with conflicting ambitions, then you have a story. Add a pretty girl and a silver Merc, and you’ll have a buyer.”

Richard was a cinema usher at London's Clapham Picture House in the late 90s. In between shovelling popcorn and tearing tickets, he learnt how to direct from the films of Hitchcock, Godard and Richard Lester, and from studying an old BBC manual.

As a television director, Richard has worked with Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) and has directed two series with Ruby Wax for BBC1. The Gigolos is Richard's first feature film and his third collaboration with writer-performers Sacha Tarter and Trevor Sather, and editor Craig Cotterill.