Christopher Richardson

CRANKY follows three teams competing to be local champions in an open sea race like no other in North America. It is also a poignant look at an island way of life and a seafaring culture that has changed little over the centuries.

Christopher Richardson’s 1987 valedictory was misguided and cringe-inducing. It’s also a regret stinging decades later. And now a 25 year reunion looms. What is it about regrets? Why do they have such a hold over us? What do they say about us? Christopher sets out to learn the truth about life regrets and – along the way – himself, in preparation for attending his 25 year reunion..

Filmmaker Christopher Richardson buys goats for third world families as thank-you gifts for clients. It's a fresh approach to promotional giveaways, but as the list of gifted goats grows, some clients question the existence of their goat. Christopher decides to travel to Zambia to track down a client's goat and discover for himself if ethical gifts are the positive developing world life changers they are advertised to be.

Twenty ponies of an endangered breed are facing death from neglect and abandonment. A horse hauling team attempts a cross-continent rescue. It's a huge endeavour. And on the road, anything can happen.

There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and support of his sister and her husband and observing his young niece’s blossoming emotional maturity seem to give new meaning to a life he feels he had wasted. With unexpected humour, stark realism and quiet insight, Under The Weather is an uplifting meditation on one man’s graceful surrender to the inevitable and the palpable impact his passing has on those he leaves behind.