Richard B. Pierre is an award-winning multiracial Black filmmaker who has written and directed over a dozen short films that have been broadcast and screened in over 100 festivals worldwide. Richard's first feature 'Crooked' was a Nicholl Fellowship quarter-finalist, and since then he's written over a dozen features and a plethora of shorts in a variety of genres. His newest short, ‘An Uninvited Guest’ won BEST THRILLER at the 2020 HollyShorts Film Festival and was nominated for a 2021 Golden Sheaf Award. Building on the success of ‘An Uninvited Guest,’ Richard is focused on using genres such as science fiction, thriller and horror to create thought-provoking films that spark challenging conversations around race. In 2021, he was a Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative participant, an Indigenous Screen Office Solidarity Fund Development Grants for Racialized Individuals recipient, and a Telefilm Development Stream for Racialized Persons recipient. Most recently, he received a Canada Council for the Arts screenwriting grant to create a new horror creature feature.