SHIVER

Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage serial kille.Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.

Julian Richards is a graduate of The National Film School. His short film trilogy Pirates (1987), Queen Sacrifice (1988) and Bad Company (1992) won Best Film at the British Short Film Festival. His television career started when still only a first year student he was invited to direct In with the Rent (1990) a Playhouse for BBC Wales. After film school Julian directed other tv works. In 1994 Julian adapted the novel "Calling All Monsters" for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and in 1996 he wrote and directed his debut feature film Darklands. This film won several awards including The Melies D'Argent for Best European Fantasy Film. Richards second feature, Silent Cry (2002) was awarded The Gold Remi at Worldfest Houston and his third feature, serial killer shockumentary The Last Horror Movie (2003) which he also produced through his company Prolific Films, won fourteen awards including The Melies D'argent for Best European Fantasy Film 2005. Then he directed Summers Scars (2008) and in 2009 Charles Dickens's England (2009), a feature length documentary about the life of Charles Dickens.