Richard Alwyn

Movies

Into the Wind
Director
Writer and birdwatcher Tim Dee walks the flatlands of The Wash in Lincolnshire on a quest to capture the elusive sound of 'pure' wind. A poetic, mesmeric film from film-maker Richard Alwyn.
Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man
Director
Drama-documentary telling the story of Samuel Johnson's creation of the first English dictionary, in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London. The depressive writer-for-hire with Tourette's syndrome did for the English language what Newton had done for the stars, classifying words, fixing their meaning and bringing order to the chaos of language. It took him nine years, but in the process an anonymous writer became a literary superstar.
Shooting Dogs
Executive Producer
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
Shooting Dogs
Idea
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
Speechless
Director
Richard Alwyn's intensely moving film, inspired by the experience of his brother-in-law, follows two stroke survivors who can no longer take language for granted.