Richard Gray (director)

Richard Gray is an Australian film director and film producer.

Richard Gray
Richard Gray, 2009
Born (1980-04-25) 25 April 1980
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralian
OccupationFilm director, Film producer
Years active2003–present
Net worthUS$250 thousand (2019)
Height5'10"
Spouse(s)
Michele Gray
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(
m. 2009)

Biography

Raised in Melbourne, Australia,[1] Gray at age 15 began making short films and working in movie theaters in towns including Forest Hill and Chadstone, Victoria,[2] eventually moving up to projectionist.[3] He earned a bachelor's degree in film from The University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television[3][4] in 2003.[5]

After writing the script for the romantic drama Summer Coda in 2004, he spend six years developing and seeking financing for the feature while working in television, including producing and directing the Lifestyle Channel cooking show Stefano’s Cooking Paradiso, starring Stefano de Pieri.[3] In 2005, the script was runner-up in the reality-television screenwriting competition Project Greenlight Australia.[3] He eventually completed Summer Coda, which was released theatrically in 2010, and has gone on to make four additional features, primarily thrillers, through 2016.

Personal life

Richard Gray was married to his wife Michele in Mildura, Victoria, Australia, in 2009.[6] They have two children together.

Filmography
  • Summer Coda (2010, director)
  • Mine Games (2012, director)
  • Blinder (2013, director, writer)
  • The Lookalike (2014, director, producer)
  • Sugar Mountain (2016, director, producer)
  • Broken Ghost (2018, director, producer)
gollark: Capitalism is why we have a massively effective (okay, mostly, some things are bad and need fixing, like intellectual property) economic engine here which can produce tons of stuff people want. But people *do not care* about diverting that to help faraway people they can't see.
gollark: Helping people elsewhere does mean somewhat fewer resources available here, and broadly speaking people do not actually want to make that tradeoff.
gollark: You don't particularly need that. You can just buy a cheaper phone and give charity £400 or something.
gollark: People might actually look at you as weird if you donate a significant % of your income to effective charities, rather than just £10 a month to WarmFuzzyCharity2000 which helps endangered homeless tigers get food or something.
gollark: As far as I'm aware, you can actually still save lives for something like £500 each by donating money to help with malaria in Africa. But *nobody does this*!

References
  1. McMahon, Vanessa (9 June 2012). "'Mine Games' (2012); Interview with Richard Gray". FilmFestivals.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2016. Coming from Melbourne I've been attending the festival [there] for over ten years.
  2. de Bruyn, Simon (2 August 2010). "MIFF2010: Richard Gray talks up his hot feature debut SUMMER CODA!". ScreenAnarchy.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. Toomey, Matthew (15 October 2010). "Talking with Director Richard Gray About 'Summer Coda'". TheFilmPie.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. "Team". Yellow Brick Films. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  5. Miraudo, Simon (19 October 2010). "Interview – Richard Gray, 'Summer Coda'". Quickflix.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  6. "Summer Coda I/V". At the Movies with Margaret & David. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 October 2010. Archived from the original on 11 May 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016. Archive of text portion only.
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