Scott Richards
CEO, Creative Development Director. at Imagine Embers
Screenwriter
Selkirk, Canada
October 2020
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About Scott
I am an optioned screenwriter and military veteran who writes scripts on assignment for producers. I write mainly science-fiction and fantasy, but I also craft contemporary thrillers, and stories of the supernatural. I graduated with a Master Screenwriting Certificate from ScreenwritingU out of Los Angeles, completed John Truby’s course, The Anatomy of Story, and continue to learn every day to expand my knowledge and hone my expertise.
I love working with producers to fulfill their visions for the big screen. To date, I have written two screenplays for producers around the world and am working on three more still in development. I have completed several of my own projects making fourteen screenplays total. I have also written three novels, numerous poetry, two stage plays, and several short stories.
My feature film script THE IMMOLATION is a finalist at this year’s Oniros Film Awards and REDteam Films Awards. Another of my features, ALL IS FARE was a quarter-finalist at the 2019 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition. My script, SACRED TOMB is currently in production in India. I won the Editor’s Choice Award for my poem NO LONGER, published in “An Armory of Language” 2001, and many of my poems have appeared in various publications too numerous to mention. I am a winner of two Journalism Scholarships from Brandon University, Manitoba where he pursued an English Degree.
To better understand the art of writing for the stage and screen, I gained acting positions in Community Theatre and as a background actor for the big screen. My credits include Lee in “STORM WARNING” by Margaret Pople, Sgt. Major Morris in “THE MONKEY’S PAW” by W.W. Jacobs and Inspector Hound in “THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND” by Tom Stoppard. As a background actor, I appeared in “WRONG TURN IV”, “PERCY VS. GOLIATH” with Christopher Walken, and “A DOG’S JOURNEY”.
Even with forty-plus years of writing, I am a firm believer that “The craft of writing is never honed to a sharp enough edge, there is always more to learn.”
Unique traits: Military Veteran skilled as a soldier, first responder and disaster relief volunteer.
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Powder Blue Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi Dying from poison and dependent on an illegal drug to stay alive, a fired cop must overthrow the universal syndicate that supplies him to find the rare antidote that will save him, but the syndicate’s sadistic overlord sparks a galactic conflict to stop him.
Awards
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Finalist, Oniros Film Awards
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Finalist, REDTeam Film Awards
(2021) -
Quarter Finalist, Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition
(2019)
Education
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Industrial Scripts Scriptreading Course
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International Screenwriter's Association Craft Course
(2021-2022) -
John Truby's Anatomy of Story
(2020-2021) -
SceenwritingU
(2016-2020) -
Brandon University
(1999-2005) -
UCLA
(2022)
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