Richard John Taylor
Richard John Taylor (born 15 June 1985) is a British film maker.
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Princess Films
In 2011, Taylor formed Princess Films [1]with the stated goal of producing "hard hitting and thought provoking" documentaries. His first film was I Want To Talk About It,[2][3] a documentary looking at the effects of rape, fronted by actress Louisa Lytton.
In 2012 the company moved on to feature films, the first being Fifteen starring Nicholas Ball. He later wrote and directed Acceptance[4][5] starring Billy Murray, Leslie Grantham, Crissy Rock and Chris Langham.[6]
He worked with Grantham on two more films, a short entitled Leslie[7] in which Grantham plays a fictionalised version of himself and the feature The Factory[8] which was loosely inspired by the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the life of the actor Gene Wilder. Langham also makes an appearance in The Factory as the lead characters family doctor.
June 25 2012 Taylor registered the domain bbc-drama.co.uk claiming to be a non-trading individual. [9]The domain's website, active in March 2014, displays the current BBC Eastenders site in a frameset. The Guardian expose (below) says he used the email address linked to this domain on his business card.
In June 2013, he shot an independent short film Life's Too Short on location in New York featuring Lloyd Kaufman as well as his daughter, Charlotte. The movie was based on an idea by Taylor and then improvised by the cast, shooting in two days.[10]
Personal health
On 4 June 2013, a short documentary film entitled The Magnificent Seven[11] aired at Short London,[12] an open air, monthly film festival hosted in London's Docklands. In the film, whilst investigating the relationships surrounding the culture of 'drinking buddies', Taylor stated that in late December 2012 he had been diagnosed with cancer. The short, filmed, presented and directed by Taylor, went on to win "Best Film" at the festival. The people in the film were all actual people who knew Taylor. Genuine, funny and gritty. It included Phil ( deceased), Peter, Adrian, Richard, Paul, Doug. [13]
Simon Hattenstone Guardian article
In March 2014, Simon Hattenstone wrote an article in The Guardian newspaper claiming Taylor had falsified claims in regards to his business associates and defrauded investors [14]
References
- ↑ http://princess-films.com
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3020808/
- ↑ http://www.screendaily.com/taylor-plans-feature-about-victims-of-rape/5028424.article
- ↑ http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2012/10/29/film-review-acceptance/
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2793072/
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- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3030856/
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3016948/
- ↑ http://who.is/whois/bbc-drama.co.uk
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/69809891
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3034070/
- ↑ http://submissio81.wix.com/shortlondon#!short-london-june-4th/cmql
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/69807873
- ↑ Simon Hattenstone "On the trail of a con man", The Guardian, 22 March 2014
