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Beryl Richards

Lecturer TV Drama

Beryl directs film, TV drama and comedy. In TV, as lead director, she’s helped create many popular UK teens and kids series, for which she has been awarded 5 BAFTA’s, and 4 International EMMY nominations, most recently in 2020 for drama for Joe All Alone which also won a kids drama BAFTA in 2018.  In 2019 she directed Free Rein YA series for Netflix. Beryl’s current feature documentary, Hello Stranger, a story of about adoption and family, is largely created from 25 years of her own home movies.  Beryl’s short cinema films have been shown in 60 international festivals. Her feature script Runaway won the VFF screenwriting prize at the Berlinale.  Her play Diamond, commissioned by BBC Arts, ran at the 2018 Edinburgh fringe. Beryl has exec produced nearly 200 kids short films for the European Broadcasting Union working with writers and directors in 38 countries, many films appear in international film festivals; two have won a BAFTA for the BBC and S4C. 

Beryl chaired the board of Directors UK from 2015-17. She helped found and also chaired the DUK’s Gender Equality Group, which has led campaigning for better representation of women directors in the UK and worldwide. She won the 2016 Women in Film/ITV Achievement of the Year award for this work.  She has been an elected member of BAFTA's TV committee since 2017, taking a particular interest in diversity. She is a BAFTA mentor and also mentors film/screenwriting students with autism and ADHD. In 2019 she joined the Screen Cornwall advisory committee.  

Beryl joined Falmouth teaching TV Drama part time in 2019, becoming full time in Sept 2020.  

Beryl Richards Staff Profile
EmailBeryl.Richards@falmouth.ac.uk
  • Qualifications
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  • Policy engagement within Cornwall
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    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YearQualificationAwarding body
    2000
    Masters degree Screenwriting
    University of the Arts, London College of Communication
    1990
    Masters degree Independent Film and Video
    University of the Arts, Central St Martins
    1980
    BA (Hons) Media Studies
    Westminster University

    Honours and awards

    YearDescription
    2018

    BAFTA - Best Children's Drama Joe all Alone

    2017

    BAFTA - Best Interactive Secret Life of Boys

    2006

    BAFTA (Scotland) - Best children's programme Uncle Dad

    2005

    BAFTA - Best Children's Drama. My Life as a Popat

    1996

    BAFTA - Best Children's Drama The Ward

    Membership of external committees

    • Elected member BAFTA TV Committee 2017 - present
    • Advisory group Screen Cornwall 2019 - present
    • Nominations committee Directors UK 2019 - present
    • Chair Directors UK 2015 -2017
    • Chair Gender Equality Group Directors UK 2013 - 2017

    Research Outputs

    Events

    YearDescription
    2014

    Speaker on women directors campaign Cannes Film festival; Berlinale; Nordic Film Festival, Council of Europe

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Film/TV drama production; directing; screenwriting; acting

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Television

    Policy engagement within Cornwall

    Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwal

    Member Screen Cornwall advisory committee 2019 - present

    Business Engagement

    Business start ups

    Derryboye Films Ltd
    Strangford Pictures Ltd

    Film production companies

    Consultancy and facility services

    Work as a consultant/executive producer for the European Broadcasting Union, Geneva

    Professional engagement

    Independent professional practice

    2020 Hello Stranger - BFI funded feature documentary - writer/producer/director
    2019 Free Rein - Netflix YA drama series - director
    2018 Joe all Alone - BBC drama mini series - lead director
    2015/17 Secret Life of Boys - BBC/ABC comedy - developer/producer/director
    2015 Firework - BFI funded short film and feature script
    and 20+ years of directing TV drama and comedy including My Parents are Aliens; Wild at Heart; Wizards v Aliens; Spitting Image; Linda Green; Girls in Love; My Life as a Popat
    2005 - present- Executive Producer, Children's drama series for European Broadcasting Union

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    Elected member BAFTA TV committee, and kids committee
    Member nominations committee Directors UK
    Former chair Directors UK
    Former chair Gender Equality Group, Directors UK

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