Richard Stanley

Richard Stanley was born in 1966 in Fish Hoek, near Cape Town. As a schoolboy he shot short films on Super 8 and 8 mm that won prizes in amateur competitions, then made his way to London, where from 1987 he directed music videos for rock bands. At twenty-two he filmed the siege of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. Dismissed in 1996, shortly after the first day of shooting, from a big American production, and replaced by John Frankenheimer, he turned to documentary and settled in Montségur, in the Pyrenees; he did not return to fiction until 2019.

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• CinemaDust DevilRichard Stanley · 1992Cinema