Contact Hours

Harry Richards is the director and producer of BIFA-qualified short film “Contact Hours”. He was nominated for Best Director at Sunrise Film Festival and Unrestricted View Film Festival. He was also longlisted for Best British Director at the British Short Film Awards.

Harry’s previous short film “SANTI” was selected as one of 50 films from 1,000+ submissions for the BFI Future Film Festival 2022, and it is now streaming on Minute Shorts. “SANTI” screened in person with live Q&As to 1,000+ people, including students at 21 UK universities and guests at prestigious London venues including BFI Southbank.

Prior to “SANTI”, Harry wrote, directed and produced two shorts: “Glass People” (2019) and “Year 13” (2016) — and a striking four-part travel video series for Colombia’s national newspaper. In 2023, Harry spent six months living in Medellín, Colombia, immersing himself in the culture to research for the “SANTI” feature film. Alongside this, Harry worked as Video Director for a PR company, and interviewed award-winning filmmakers for Entrepreneur Magazine about Colombia’s emerging film industry.

Earlier in his career, Harry spent nine months assisting the producers behind the critically-acclaimed Netflix episodic drama “The Bastard Son” (2022), shadowed prominent British director Tom Shankland on BBC episodic drama “SAS: Rogue Heroes” (2022), and second assistant directed five commercials. Harry has also participated in Film London’s 2022 Directing and Production Finance Labs, to further strengthen his understanding of the British film industry.

Harry is currently gearing up for his and writer Rufus Love’s debut feature film “YAMAS!”, with filming scheduled in Greece for Autumn 2025. Harry and Rufus are co-directing and producing this under the banner of their production company Headrush Films.