Richard Macer (born May 1967) is a British documentary maker who has made over fifty films whose subjects include singer/songwriter Shaun Ryder,[1] model Jordan,[2] dyslexia, morris dancing, British Vogue magazine, department stores and reincarnation.
[5] He attended Bow Brickhill Primary School, but after struggling with schoolwork due to learning difficulties, his parents made the decision to send him to a private school.
Later he attended Stantonbury Campus School and at 18 left Milton Keynes to go to Nottingham Polytechnic.
[6] He worked as a journalist and as a newsreader at Piccadilly Radio, then in a reporting job at ITV Granada.
[8] During the film, Macer himself was assessed for dyslexia but the tests were unable to confirm that he was dyslexic due to his acquired 'compensatory strategies'.