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.
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Richard GossProducer
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Richard GossWriter
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Richard GossKey Cast"Robert Pearson"WRATH OF THE TITANS (Warner Brothers), RISE OF THE KRAYS (Lionsgate), JAGAME THANDHIRAM (Netflix), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: RESURRECTION (Lionsgate)
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Jake McDaidKey Cast"Dave Turral"
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Marcus MasseyKey Cast"The Supervisor"
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Clifford HumeKey Cast"The Therapist"
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Andrew NormanKey Cast"The Preacher"
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Richard GossDirectorWRATH OF THE TITANS (Warner Brothers), RISE OF THE KRAYS (Lionsgate), JAGAME THANDHIRAM (Netflix), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: RESURRECTION (Lionsgate)
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Project Type:Television, Web / New Media
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Genres:Drama, Comedy, Thriller
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Runtime:34 minutes 51 seconds
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Completion Date:March 3, 2023
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Production Budget:2,500 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Beyond the Curve International Film FestivalParis
France
WINNER | Award of Excellence -
Paris Film AwardsParis
France
WINNER | Best Drama (Silver Award) -
London Movie AwardsLondon
United Kingdom
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Edinburgh Film AwardsEdinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Hollywood Gold AwardsLos Angeles, California
United States
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Swedish International Film FestivalArvika
Sweden
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Hamburg Indie Film FestivalHamburg
Germany
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
San Jose Independent Film FestivalSan Jose
United States
WINNER | Best Drama -
Frida Film FestivalParis
France
WINNER | Best Original Drama -
Critics' Choice International Film FestivalNew York City
United States
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Richard Goss) -
Royal Wolf Film AwardsLos Angeles, California
United States
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Milan Independent Awards Film FestivalMilan
Italy
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Robinson Film AwardsNaples
Italy
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
San Francisco Arthouse Film FestivalSan Francisco
United States
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Vienna Indie Short FestivalVienna
Austria
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Florence Film AwardsFlorence
Italy
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series | Best Actor (Richard Goss) -
8 & HalFilm AwardsRome
Italy
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
World Indie Film AwardsAbruzzo
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 FestivalNYC
United States
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
Spring Time International Film FestivalKolkata
India
WINNER | Best Web & TV Series -
MSS New York Film FestivalNew 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 FestivalNew 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
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).
“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.”