Richard Smith is a British screenwriter and film director.
He wrote Trauma, starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari,[1] and multi-award-winning half-hour film, Leonard.
A graduate in Scriptwriting from the University of Salford, he won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2002.
His work focuses on the psychology of loneliness, human failure and the ability/inability for people to overcome themselves.
His films include a feature version of Leonard (with Kinetic Arts/Crab Apple Films), an adaptation of Anthony Holden's Big Deal (with Celador) and TV movie Auntie Rita (with Scottish Media Group).