RichardFletcher
- Producer
Producer and Co-President of SPADA (Screen Production and Development Association), Richard Fletcher has worked on Vincent Ward's River Queen, and helped arrange foreign finance for movies The Strength of Water and Under the Mountain. Fletcher has overseen films and television as an executive producer, including reality series Cooks on Fire, and is Managing Director of production company Libertine Pictures.
Screenography
Biography
Richard Fletcher, founder of company Libertine Pictures, has taken an unusual path to becoming a producer. While many Kiwis learn the nuts and bolts of producing by working their way up the ladder on a film set, Fletcher first spent time in film distribution and at the NZ Film Commission, before seguing into co-producing Vincent Ward's multi-million dollar production River Queen.
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Original Reality Series (with Nick Ward, Brendan Dahill, and David Arlich): for Cooks On Fire Season 2
2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Children's Programme: for Mystic
“I see finance as something that’s very logical and slightly creative in a perverse kind of way. It is quite a simple process — you find a cornerstone investor and you build your finance plan around that.”