Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: Mixed-Race
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted and Documentary
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: Directing TV For Hire, Directing Film/Digital for Hire, Directing Music Videos/Commercials, and Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material
- Recent Credits: What Are You? (a short documentary) https://youtu.be/nb5ESQk7zQo
- Favourite Movies: Jo Jo Rabbit, Citizen Kane, The Matrix, Vertigo, Ikiru, Sympathy for the Lady of Vengeance, The Wrestler, Irreversible, Moonlight, Raging Bull, I am not your negro
- Favourite TV Shows: Game of Thrones, The Wire, Downton Abbey, Arrested Development, RuPaul's Drag Race, Veep, Killing Eve, Freaks & Geeks, Mad Men, Insecure
- Pitch a Project: In this stylized re-enactment documentary, three multiracial Canadians reveal how they've struggled with feeling like racial impostors and how they've overcome that sensation to proudly claim their identity.
- Contact Information: richard@richardbpierre.com
- Link: http://richardbpierre.com/
Bio
A graduate of Ryerson University’s film program, Richard B. Pierre professional experience ranges from writing, shooting, editing, producing and directing. Richard’s first feature-length screenplay ‘Crooked’ was selected as a quarter-finalist for the 2009 Nicholl Fellowship, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Richard’s short films have been selected for the St. Louis International Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, the Yorkton Film Festival and dozens of others worldwide. In 2011 he received the Naish McHugh Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the Toronto Urban Film Festival. His first dramatic 35 mm short film ‘The Toboggan,’ funded by the Ontario Arts Council, premiered at the 2011 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. In 2012 his first interactive short film ‘Far From The Heart’ was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award and he was named a ReelWorld Film Festival 2012 Emerging 20 Filmmaker. He received the 2015 Curtíssima Award for Best Short Under Five Minutes for his film ’The Toboggan.’ His latest project marks his first foray into documentary filmmaking; in ‘What Are You?’ he turns the camera on himself as well as a wide range of mixed-race people to explore multiracial identity.
Intro
I’m a guy who loves making short content: commercials, short films, music videos, and more and I’d love to work with you!
Also, if you’re a producer and looking to making a feature, I’d also love to chat. I write/direct and I’m always on the hunt for collaborators.
Let’s chat!
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