Soulmate

Award-winning writer/director, Richard Fenwick, tore up the festival scene between 2004 and 2010 with a prodigious string of short films that went around the world, amassing over 100 official selections and a number of prizes. The films included SAFETY PROCEDURES (Telluride, Annecy, Hamburg), LOVE LETTER (London, Raindance, Cork), ARTIFICIAL WORLDS V.3.0 (Sarajevo, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand), THE BOX (Curtocircuito, Rushes Soho Shorts) and ALBERT’S SPEECH (Encounters, Edinburgh, Annecy).

10 years later, he returned with a multi-award-winning short and an armful of feature scripts. The short, a BFI network-funded sci-fi called SOULMATE, starred the luminous Mandeep Dhillon (CSI, MobLand, Afterlife) and the peerless Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones, Toxic Town, Pieces of Her). It was a haunting, near-future mediation on relationships and AI, just when it was blowing up big in the real world. After a successful 60+ film festival run (45+ Nominations, 21 awards), it is now available to watch on DUST, SHORTS TV and SAMANSA.

The features - THE BOY WHO FOUND INFINITY / LIFELIKE / SILENCED - all play with genre in elevated ways as well, aiming to subvert, yet satisfy, audiences' expectations. LIFELIKE, specifically, lives in the same universe as SOULMATE and shares many of the same themes.

Over the years, Richard has been selected for multiple filmmaking labs, inc Cross Channel Film Lab; Cinema Extreme; Think, Shoot, Distribute; NET.WORK@LFF and was chosen as a Screen International 'Star of Tomorrow'.