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Raymond Friel

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: North Lanarkshire
Languages: English
Author type: Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer
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Raymond Friel is an award-winning screenwriter, author and playwright. He has written three feature films: The Calcium Kid, starring Orlando Bloom (produced by Working Title Films), Botched with Stephen Dorff (Winner of Best Film and Best Actor at the New York Horror Festival) and Moon Dogs (nominated by BAFTA Scotland for Best Film 2016, Winner Best Actor by BAFTA Wales 2017, Winner of Best First International Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and Best Film and Best Actor at the Newport Beach Film Festival, CA). Moon Dogs was released theatrically in the UK in 2017.

His play, Moriarty is Crying, won the Willy Russell Award for New Writing, while his short film script, Mad Dogs, was a prize-winner at the Jerwood Short Film Competition. A novel, Animal Lover, was published in 2013 by Luath Press and a script based on this was commissioned by the BBC.

Previously he has developed a number of film and television projects for companies including Scottish Screen, Creative Scotland, the UK Film Council, Channel 4, Shine Entertainment and the BBC. Raymond has also lectured on screenwriting at Glasgow University and taught a night class at Strathclyde University in writing for film and television.

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Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Mentoring; Panel event; Talk; Workshop

Audience will work with

Adult learners; Prisoners & young offenders; Young people in the community (e.g. Youth clubs, Guides, Scouts)

Topics of work

Activism & protest; Adolescence; Adventure; Animals; Childhood; Class & society; Comedy, humour & funny books; Contemporary fiction; Friendship; Horror; Loneliness & isolation

Age groups published for

Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

15-18; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+