Nationality Australian | Name Richard Wolstencroft Role Filmmaker | |
Full Name Richard David Wolstencroft Born 23 April 1969 (age 54) ( 1969-04-23 ) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Parents David William Wolstencroft Education La Trobe University, Ivanhoe Grammar School Movies Pearls Before Swine, Bloodlust, Marauders, The Last Days Of Joe Blow, The Intruder Similar People Jon Hewitt, Mark Savage, Boyd Rice, Frank Howson, Douglas P | ||
Notable work 'Pearls Before Swine' | ||
Interview with richard wolstencroft from muff melbourne underground film festival
Richard Wolstencroft (born 23 April 1969, a.k.a. Richard Masters) is an Australian filmmaker and film festival director. He is the founder and director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF).
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- Interview with richard wolstencroft from muff melbourne underground film festival
- Ifn video podcast 026 richard wolstencroft festival director of melbourne underground film festival muff09
- Film festivals
- References
Wolstencroft co-directed his first feature Bloodlust with collaborator Jon Hewitt in 1990.
In 1996 Wolstencroft began work on his second feature film Pearls Before Swine, a project completed over three years and starring Boyd Rice.
His fourth feature was The Beautiful and Damned, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is a modern adaptation, and stars Ross Ditcham, Kristen Condon, Norman Yemm, John Brumpton, Paul Moder, Peter Christopherson and Frank Howson, among others. The film was previewed at the 10th Melbourne Underground Film Festival and played at The Australian Film Festival in 2010. The US premiere of The Beautiful and Damned was held at the 10th F. Scott Fitzgerald Festival in Baltimore, US in October 2009.
Ifn video podcast 026 richard wolstencroft festival director of melbourne underground film festival muff09
Film festivals
In addition to MUFF, Wolstencroft founded the 'Bloodfest Fantastique' film festival, dedicated to horror and science fiction cinema. The festival opened at a venue in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia on 10 June 2011 and was a one-off event.