Director: Richard Allen
Richard Allen studied creative writing at Bard College in the
1960s. He began his professional career as an actor with
the famous Theater Co. of Boston. He moved to New
York to work as a writer and actor with Channel One Underground
TV, a video show in a theater, which later grew into the movie,
"The Groove Tube." He read some
potential projects for Dustin Hoffman, whom he had met
in Boston, for which he got to go on the set during the
making of "Midnight Cowboy." He began putting his own
films together in 1970. His best known short film, "The
One Arm Bandit" has been called "one of the
funniest short films of all time," "a comic
gem," and "masterpiece" in its
reviews. When Rich Allen was handed down old footage his
grandfather had taken long ago, he began to edit and
narrate it and integrated short films from 1911 as
part of a longer movie called "A Hundred Years in
the Making." His best films have shown in festivals
worldwide and on television on PBS in New York. He
has won best film awards, fellowships in film from
the National Endowment on Arts (twice) and CAPS. Also
a photographer, Richard Allen is the author of a book Street
Shots/Hooky NYC Photographs 1970-1980. Also a 100 ton licensed
yacht captain, sailor, and boat builder, he's lived in
Rhode Island many years. "Side By Each" is his
first feature film. |
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