Richard Bell (director), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian film director
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Place of Birth: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
About Richard Bell (director)
- Richard Bell is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
- He is most noted as the writer and director of the films Eighteen and Brotherhood. A survival / adventure drama, based on a true story, Brotherhood will star Brendan Fehr, Brendan Fletcher, Jake Manley, Gage Munroe, Dylan Everett, Matthew Isen and Sam Ashe Arnold.
- It was filmed on the Michipicoten First Nation and at Revival Film Studios in Toronto, Canada.
- It is currently in post-production at the Rolling Picture Company.
- Eighteen starred Brendan Fletcher, Carly Pope, Mark Hildreth, Thea Gill, and Alan Cumming.
- The film was narrated by Ian McKellen, with music composed by Bramwell Tovey and performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
- Eighteen was released on DVD on June 27, 2006.
- It made its Canadian broadcast television premiere on City TV on March 1, 2008 and became available on iTunes in summer / fall of 2010. Bell adapted Joanne Proulx's novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet.
- The project was developed by Telefilm and Astral Media, through the Harold Greenberg Fund and went to camera on March 27th, 2017 with a new shooting script and Bell serving as co-executive producer.
- At the Whistler Film Festival in 2012, Bell was one of the three winners of the China Canada Gateway for Film, a co-production initiative with China, with his romantic-comedy pitch Blush.
- In September 2010, Bell was chosen out of 217 applicants to the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab.
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