Richard Moon

MoonHill Productions, Voyage Media
Screenwriter, Producer and Author

Los Angeles, California

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About Richard

Richard H Moon is an award-winning writer living in Altadena, CA, with his wife, teenaged kid, and too-many cats, dogs, chickens, and one rabbit.

His writing has won awards and accolades from the Austin Film Festival, AAA Screenwriting Awards, the PAGE Screenwriting Awards, Eerie HorrorFest, Nicholls and Inroads Fellowships, and was a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diversity Grant in 2022. He is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association(SFWA), and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from UC Riverside.

His work prods the edges of genre conventions, playing with characters and tropes in ways that go beyond the standard understandings, whether that means a fairy-tale retelling recast as a historical, dramatic coming-of-age story, or an epic fantasy examination of a historical mystery.

Most recently, he uses the elements of brotherhood, family, and how we approach death, to answer the question “what if the Bronze Age Collapse of 1200BCE was caused by a combination of powerful magic, extreme loneliness, and a zombie apocalypse?”

In addition to writing full-time, Richard reviews research protocols for City of Hope Hospital and CSU Long Beach Institutional Review Board, and works as a development producer and freelance writer with Voyage Media. He also spends an enormous amount of time along with his family fostering kittens for the local animal shelter.

Unique traits: Physics degree Math, science, history, english tutor Fosters kittens, raises chickens.

Gender:
Male

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Little Red Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller A young farm girl in a war-torn country heads out over the hills and through the woods on a mission to save her family, only to face off against a hungry wolf, a dangerous hunter, and family secrets she never suspected.
The Acluckalypse, or Zombie Chickens Budget: $10M - $30M | Horror ⋄ Comedy A twitchy vegan, stubborn slaughter-line worker, egotist scientist, and a tired security chief all struggle to survive and escape a poultry processing plant when an experiment intended to create the perfect chicken nugget instead causes the corpses of the plucked chickens to rise from the dead.
The Disconnected Budget: $30M+ | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi After a reclusive genius discovers that the mind-to-mind communications technology she invented is what's separating her from her own past, she has to decide between stopping the man who wants to control the system, or helping the man who wants to destroy it.
Jupiter Budget: $30M+ | Western ⋄ Sci-fi The survivor of a crushed revolution seeks a new life at an outpost among the moons of Jupiter. When he falls in love with a woman who will stop at nothing to build her empire, he must decide whether to run from his violent past, or fight for a new future.
Upstage Budget: $100K - $1M | Musical ⋄ Comedy An anxiety-ridden music director, a slippery choreographer, and an overworked stage manager must come together to save their off-Broadway musical after the director is abruptly fired days before their big opening.
Zombeo & Juliécula Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Comedy At an elementary school split between two feuding populations, a young boy and a young girl discover that they've got much more in common than they've been lead to believe. The only thing standing in their way is the same thing dividing the whole school, and causing strife through-out each school day: He's a zombie, and She's a vampire.

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Credits

West Virginia (2016)
Film by Smoking Bear Pictures / Preston Peterson, Jason Boesch Produced by Three stories examining what it means to live, find connection, deal with trauma, and do more than just exist, in the rural landscape of small mining town in West Virginia.
Zombeo & Juliécula (2013)
Film (short) by MoonHill Productions / Stev Elam Written by, Produced by An upbeat adaptation of Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet set in an elementary school, where young zombie boy and young vampire girl befriend each other despite the ongoing feud between the vampire, human and zombie students.
Driving by Braille (2011)
Film by MoonHill Productions / Kristina Lloyd Written by, Produced by A young woman relives childhood trauma when she senses her boyfriend is about to propose. Now, they must sort through the fear holding them apart ... before her past destroys their future.