Rick is currently in production on an original 6 part drama series entitled the Surprize Cafe
Click to LISTEN to an interview with Shavni Mair at the Creative Careers surgery.
Voted No 23 in The Greatest Ever Screen Chases, this exciting car sequence lead to an explosive climax which ended the life of Steve Owen (Martin Kemp) in 2003. The sequence was directed by Rick Platt and the action vehicles were co-ordinated by Steve Whyment of Stunts International.
WITNESS a mobile phone short shot as an in vision insert for Holby City (BBC1)
John Savident in Mayday Mayday, written and directed by Rick Platt. Winner of The First Film Foundation, New Directions 1995.
Elvis is alive and well and living in a council flat in Great Yarmouth. But it’s hard to be the king of rock & Roll when you’re only 12 and sing like Bob Dylan’s cat. Escaping from his pregnant mum, her new boyfriend and the school truant officer, Elvis is going home, to Memphis. On the road, he meets Michael; a young disabled teenager abandoned to a respite care home by an absent father. Together they form an unlikely alliance and begin a journey of self discovery. King is a touchingly funny, comedy drama, of acceptance, identity and friendship.
THE GOOD DEATH GUIDE (black comedy)by Rick Platt
A hapless comedian dials an emotional help-line whilist researching material for his act and inadvertantly ends up ordering his own death, only to fall for the seemingly efficient beauty sent to complete the paperwork. Unable to cancel and smitten by her attentions, he finds himself caught between the devil and her deep blue eyes..... and the clock’s ticking......
RE-RUN by John Burrows (rites of passage)
Kate, a middle aged woman, deals with the breakup of her marriage by trying to re-run her past. Complications arise when her past begins to crash into her present, with the appearance of a a girl who looks exactly like a long dead school friend. Forced to confront her life, her sexuality and her errant husband, Kate must choose between her old self or her newfound ambition.
BOUNTY by Rick Platt. “It’s schizophrenic comedy – you get twice the laughs!”
A troubled and hormonal, runaway, teenage gypsy bride and a cash strapped, schizophrenic, young hotel manager; are inadvertently thrown together in a comic relationship of opposites. She, the spoiled, domineering, gypsy princess, used to getting her own way; and he, the schizoid young man, with an imaginary friend in the shape of his late father’s ventriloquist bear, called Buddy, a fire damaged and tattered “Ted” with a foul mouth and all the sensibilities of Bernard Manning On the run their relationship develops from loathing to toleration, through acceptance, affection and finally partnership as they decide to turn the tables on her domineering family and go through with the exchange, keeping the money for their trouble. Bounty is a comedy caper of unresolved family issues.
THE YOUNG CLEOPATRA (action adventure) by Al Hunter-Ashton
When the future queen of Egypt escapes certain death at the hands of her sister, and accompanied by a young Mark Anthony, finds love, adventure and fulfills her spiritual destiny before returning home in triumph to Alexandria.
Young Cleopatra Studio back lot EMPC, Egypt 2008. The Egyptian Media Production City. Cairo.
John Savident in 
Pinewood studios U stage. Underwater sequence. Part of the first £1million stunt for the 
Elvis is alive and well and living in a council flat in Great Yarmouth. But it’s hard to be the king of rock & Roll when you’re only 12 and sing like Bob Dylan’s cat. 
Kate, a middle aged woman, deals with the breakup of her marriage by trying to re-run her past. Complications arise when her past begins to crash into her present, with the appearance of a a girl who looks exactly like a long dead school friend. Forced to confront her life, her sexuality and her errant husband, Kate must choose between her old self or her newfound ambition.
Young Cleopatra Studio back lot