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FRIED

Winner of 38 film festival awards including:
21x Best Series, 10x Best Actor, 2x Best Drama, Best Original Drama, Best Thriller and The Award of Excellence.

“A psychotic call centre worker and a depressed waiter struggle with minimum-wage life in London, blurring the lines between reality and madness.”

FRIED is a nihilistic, psychological thriller with dark comedic elements.

An indie series set in London, it explores themes of poverty, social class, mental illness and addiction. Throughout the episodes, the protagonists lives spiral violently out of control, descending into a labyrinth of madness, blood and destruction.

It has won 38 film awards worldwide and was created by Welsh actor-writer Richard Goss. He self-financed the production through years of saving from his jobs between acting roles.

It is influenced by cult films WITHNAIL & I, AMERICAN PSYCHO, FILTH and IN BRUGES, literary classics CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Dostoyevsky, Orwell's DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON and Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT.

  • Richard Goss
    Producer
  • Richard Goss
    Writer
  • Richard Goss
    Key Cast
    "Robert Pearson"
    WRATH OF THE TITANS (Warner Brothers), RISE OF THE KRAYS (Lionsgate), JAGAME THANDHIRAM (Netflix), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: RESURRECTION (Lionsgate)
  • Jake McDaid
    Key Cast
    "Dave Turral"
  • Marcus Massey
    Key Cast
    "The Supervisor"
  • Clifford Hume
    Key Cast
    "The Therapist"
  • Andrew Norman
    Key Cast
    "The Preacher"
  • Richard Goss
    Director
    WRATH OF THE TITANS (Warner Brothers), RISE OF THE KRAYS (Lionsgate), JAGAME THANDHIRAM (Netflix), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: RESURRECTION (Lionsgate)
  • Project Type:
    Television, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Drama, Comedy, Thriller
  • Runtime:
    34 minutes 51 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    2,500 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Beyond the Curve International Film Festival
    Paris
    France
    WINNER | Award of Excellence
  • Paris Film Awards
    Paris
    France
    WINNER | Best Drama (Silver Award)
  • London Movie Awards
    London
    United Kingdom
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Edinburgh Film Awards
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    United Kingdom
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Hollywood Gold Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    United States
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Swedish International Film Festival
    Arvika
    Sweden
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Hamburg Indie Film Festival
    Hamburg
    Germany
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • San Jose Independent Film Festival
    San Jose
    United States
    WINNER | Best Drama
  • Frida Film Festival
    Paris
    France
    WINNER | Best Original Drama
  • Critics' Choice International Film Festival
    New York City
    United States
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Richard Goss)
  • Royal Wolf Film Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    United States
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Milan Independent Awards Film Festival
    Milan
    Italy
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Robinson Film Awards
    Naples
    Italy
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • San Francisco Arthouse Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Vienna Indie Short Festival
    Vienna
    Austria
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Florence Film Awards
    Florence
    Italy
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Richard Goss)
  • 8 & HalFilm Awards
    Rome
    Italy
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • World Indie Film Awards
    Abruzzo
    Italy
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • 4theatre Selection Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Richard Goss)
  • Morgana Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Actor (Richard Goss) | Best Acting Duo (Richard Goss, Jake McDaid)
  • Elegant International Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Thriller
  • Red Moon Film Festival
    NYC
    United States
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Spring Time International Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • MSS New York Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    WINNER | Best Actor (Richard Goss)
  • Indiefare International Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Cult Movies International Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series
  • Inside Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Jake McDaid)
  • FilmNest International Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Actor (Jake McDaid) | Best Cinematography (Zak Fenning)
  • NYC Independent Film Festival
    New York City
    United States
    WINNER | Best Actor (Jake McDaid)
  • FilmMySea International Film Festival

    WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Richard Goss)
  • Lift-Off Global Network (Pinewood Studios)
    London
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection | Best Web & TV Series
Director Biography - Richard Goss

Richard is a Welsh actor and filmmaker.

He has a starring role in 2025's WARLORD alongside Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings), Ryan Gage (The Hobbit) and Jennifer English (Baldur's Gate III), directed by BAFTA-winner Stuart Brennan and shot by Stanley Kubrick cinematographer Doug Milsome.

He's just wrapped filming in Europe on the American thriller MURDER IN PARADISE with Al Sapienza (The Sopranos).

Richard was interviewed live on e-TALENTA and Actors Pro Expo, and was a Film Festival Guild judge at the 2024 International Film Festival of Wales.

He's acted in films for NETFLIX, LIONSGATE and WARNER BROTHERS, alongside Hollywood stars Sam Worthington (AVATAR), Liam Neeson (TAKEN), Rosamund Pike (GONE GIRL) and James Cosmo (GAME OF THRONES).

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Director Statement

“I wanted to make something for myself, drawing upon my own journey, as both a cathartic and entertaining experience. I wanted to make something I haven’t seen in a long time – dark, grim and with a sick sense of humour. These type of scripts and films aren’t made very much anymore, such as WITHNAIL & I, FILTH, TRAINSPOTTING, etc.

The British film industry is obsessed with upper class, period dramas or gangster films. FRIED is different. This is a dialogue-heavy meditation on poverty, violence, mental health, disenfranchisement and social class.”