Rising star director Richard Colton tells all ahead of film Dead Ringer’s release

Richard Colton is a film director from Essex currently regarded one of the movers and shakers on the indie film scene, we sat down with him to find out more about his thoughts on were the industry currently stands and his future plans.

Q. Richard – as a director what genre’s do you feel are underrepresented in the UK?

It’s seems that just about everyone (at our end of the business) makes either football hooligan films, gangland crime films or zombie movies, so that basically leaves every other genre underrepresented. To be honest that’s where Amarich productions comes in we fill that gap in the market. The funny thing is I have actually written a script called Hooligans Vs Zombies but it maybe a while til we make it.

Q. What image and look where you trying to achieve in Dead Ringer?

From the very beginning I knew that if I was going to set a movie in the music industry world then I would have to include a lot of gloss and glamour. That ethos carried into the shooting style and look of the whole film.

Q. What film genre do you feel is on the rise and why?

Every film maker has to go through the same selling process offering the film you have made to a distributor to sell the films to the public. These distributors are a very small group of people and there are always the same fashions and trends of films they’re looking to buy and sell, that means every six months trends change, it’s hard keeping up but most of the time you can guess it, for example if Mission Impossible is this years big blockbuster then over the next six months distributors will be looking for mission impossible clones or at the very least anything in the action movie genre.

Q. Being from Essex – what aspects of Essex make you proud of the county?

I have always lived in Essex and it’s a beautiful county, Whether it be Epping forest or the beautiful cost line like Maldon or Southend, Essex has it all especially seeing how close it is to London too. Perhaps it’s so beautiful because the people are too.