Richard Boyce
Producer/Director Richard Boyce has lived on Vancouver Island most of his life. He has shot documentaries for 20 years. His debut as cinematographer and co-director was on the award-winning feature theatrical success: “The Street – a film with the homeless” (1997) with producer/director Daniel Cross. As a Cinematographer Boyce engages his subjects from the heart while working in extreme conditions from the icy streets of Montreal to the heat of the Sahara Desert, across the USA and Canada, to the wild and wet climate of the Pacific Coast deep within the ancient rainforest of Vancouver Island. Boyce provokes social and environmental change by engaging a cross-section of media including film, video, and the internet, most notable as the Victoria Outreach Worker for the award winning website HOMELESS NATION With a MFA in Film Production Boyce founded ISLAND BOUND MEDIA in 2000 on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
His passion for the rainforest lead him to undertake a course provided by Forestry Renewal BC and he was certified as a Woodlands Manager in 2001. This knowledge combined with his participation in the struggle to protect Cathedral Grove when it was threatened by a government-planned parking lot, provided him with the basis for a newspaper column ‘Island Lens’ which was published in the Parksville-Qualicum News for 5 years. Boyce is already working on his next film in collaboration with Kwaxsistalla, Chief Adam Dick and Kim Recalma-Clutesi who is co-director & producer of ‘Singing Through the Seasons’ focusing on the traditional harvests of the Kwakwaka’wakw people.
