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Michael Lee Richardson

@hrfmichael

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Working class writer, director and friend of Dorothy. No Place Like Home @ EIFF. One half of @onceuponavhs
Agent: @minghellacreativemanagement

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‘Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don’t forget we loved it when we were alive.’ // September 2026 by @hrfmichael

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Sorry to sound like a posh girl who likes wild swimming but I will do absolutely anything to get in the sea, immediate mental health cure - a mermaid 🧜‍♀️ by @hrfmichael

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‘It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all’ // August 2026 by @hrfmichael

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There will be a lot of sanctification of Dolly over the next few days - she was an extraordinary philanthropist, what she did for literacy in particular is unparalleled - but it’s her human qualities that I’ve always responded to, somebody who understood what it meant to live good and live well, and one of the greatest songwriters we will ever ever know by @hrfmichael

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‘No Place Like Home’

Writer and filmmaker Michael Lee Richardson revisits a childhood favourite film and finds a secret hidden inside all along. Part biography, part personal essay, the film blends 80s nostalgia and camp aesthetics to reclaim the narrative of North East queer history.

You can get tickets now for:
Tuesday 18th August @ 18:00 in Cameo
Wednesday 19th August @ 14:00 in Cineworld

Director - @hrfmichael
Producer - @reececargan & @berrycrowd
Editor - @ania_urbanowska_
Edit Consultant - @Ki_gos_
Composer @charlie_smith_composer
Sound design @hea.ndrews
DOP - @mattmead._
Camera Assistant - @calum_white26
Sound Recordist - Seamus Stewart-Skinner
Production Designer - @laurabercebalarmero
Art Assistant - @valentinaaliciauribe
Gaffer - Graham Kocjan
PA - @rubybreslin_
PA - Liam Aitken
PA - Arianne Melucci

Huge, huge thanks to @scottishdocinstitute and @screenscots, and to @omalley52, @bugduffyscott, @hellgirl1990 and, always, @musicallum by @hrfmichael

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Was very satisfying to tick off events as they happened, but this and reading 65 script extracts for an awards a week before running filmmaking summer camp with a group of young people was deranged, even by my usual standard, so I'm taking a couple of weeks off the old socials to enjoy my one life here on earth - if you need me, tough titty. by @hrfmichael

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‘Such silly things, children – and so embarrassing – because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something’ // Pride House 2026? Completed it mate by @hrfmichael

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She put her face against Glinda’s and kissed her. ‘Hold out, if you can,’ she murmured, and kissed her again. ‘Hold out, my sweet.’ / July 2026 by @hrfmichael

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Fun bit of Buffy history that resurfaced on Reddit: ‘Showtime’, as aired, with Eliza Dushku doing the voiceover for Buffy’s telepathic conversation with Buffy (apparently Sarah Michelle Gellar couldn’t make the ADR session, so they brought Eliza in at short notice) - changed on all subsequent broadcast version by @hrfmichael

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Feeling incredibly blessed with the final cut of No Place Like Home - screening next month at Edinburgh International Film Festival and hopefully beginning a fruitful and exciting festival journey!

Incredibly lucky to have worked with such a talented cast (me) and crew.

‘No Place Like Home’

Writer and filmmaker Michael Lee Richardson revisits a childhood favourite film and finds a secret hidden inside all along. Part biography, part personal essay, the film blends 80s nostalgia and camp aesthetics to reclaim the narrative of North East queer history.

You can get tickets now tor:

Tuesday 18th August @ 18:00 in Cameo
Wednesday 19th August @ 14:00 in Cineworld

Director - @hrfmichael
Producer - @reececargan
Producer - @berrycrowd
Editor - @ania_urbanowska_
Edit Consultant - @Ki_gos_
Composer @charlie_smith_composer
Sound design @hea.ndrews
DOP - @mattmead._
Camera Assistant - @calum_white26
Sound Recordist - Seamus Stewart-Skinner
Production Designer - @laurabercebalarmero
Art Assistant - @valentinaaliciauribe
Gaffer - Graham Kocjan
PA - Ruby Breslin
PA - Liam Aitken
PA - Arianne Melucci

Huge, huge thanks to @scottishdocinstitute and @screenscots, and to @omalley52, @bugduffyscott, @hellgirl1990 and, always, @musicallum by @hrfmichael

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‘A mile above anything known, the Girl balanced balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the sea itself, flung up by the turbulent air and sent wheeling away’ - Out of Oz

Had to wait for my hair to even out a bit before posting this one, but wanted to commemorate it on the grid - new tattoo! This one, specifically, Rain’s broom from Out of Oz/Another Day - designed by and done by the mega talented and lovely @bearlegdesigns

Already have my next one in mind… by @hrfmichael

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Getting older is the most goth thing of all // June 2026 by @hrfmichael

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