Richard Dale

Richard Dale is an EMMY and BAFTA award winning director with a groundbreaking track record in creativity and innovation in factual storytelling for television and film. A BAFTA Best New Drama Director nominee for the Channel 4 cult drama hit Teachers, Richard is a pioneer in the dramatic telling of factual stories. His international success, D-Day 6-6-44 (BBC/Fr2/Pro7) was Grierson and BAFTA nominated, whilst 9/11 Inside the Twin Towers (BBC/Discovery) and Moonshot (ITV/History Channel) moved the factual drama genre into Primetime, winning EMMY nods in the category of Best Made for TV Movie. His documentary feature, Rocketmen (SONY PICTURES JAPAN) is regarded as the definitive cinematic telling of NASA’s first pioneering half century in space. Richard began his career at the BBC before becoming Director of Creative Content at Independent Production Company, Dangerous Films Ltd, which he founded in 2005. Dangerous was sold to European media giant Zodiak in 2009. Richard has been instrumental in the transformation of TV content into global business brands. His IMAX 3D feature “Walking with Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Planet” and Giant Screen Feature “The Human Body” turned two of the most successful factual TV series of their era into multi-million dollar world wide properties.