Bio
A talented and highly organised coordinator managing HETV (serialised drama) shows, genre-specific film and factual projects for international broadcasters, studios and production companies with feature script and television drama writing experience. Rickardo has acting credits and is a published poetry writer (his first anthology is called We’re Like Sheep and he has had a range of poems in anthologies published by United Artists).
His industry experience to date has spanned short film (with his initial screenwriting and directorial début film called Noir Verité shown at the London Portobello Film Festival and the Naples Film Festival), feature films (Waiting for a Killer and Nine Dead Gay Guys), HETV (One Day for Netflix, Universal and Channel 4 and Entitled for Showtime and Channel 4), VOD and post-production. This covers production coordination, post-production coordination, copywriting and copy editing, corporate video production, campaign management and marketing directorial leadership. He has worked in corporate businesses in video and marketing (within the Information Tech, FinTech, SaaS, Martech, eCommerce, CRM/Cloud and AI/ML space), driving accelerated business growth in that innings of his career over a 15-year period (working in company sizes of 20M to 100Bn). Being a diligent multitasker with a natural ability to adapt and solve problems while staying true to his creative roots is important to how Rickardo works.
What makes Rickardo unique is his rich work background infused by his British Bajan and proudly gay point of view. Passionately bringing this experience into ongoing productions, writing and content creation projects. While continuing to be excited to collaborate with other content creators, line producers / producers, production execs, production companies and media talent managers. He remains focused on developing boundary expanding production, script writing and digital content within the film, television and wider media industry which has an edgy take on the world confronting you to think dynamically about your life.