Richard M Kjeldgaard

Unique traits: Creative mind. Sense of humor. Straight shooter. Kick back. Survivor.

• IMDB - Disremember
• IMDB - Hometown Kill box.
• Prey for the Day
• Bad Neighbors
• Nowhere-Ville
• Revived
• Hometown Kill Box
• Interview for Severance Payback
• Reading - SACRIFICES
• Podcast Looking for Sally Trailer
• Podcast Looking or Sally EPI 1
• Reading - Severance Payback
• Desert SlayGround reading
• Death Row Challenge reading
• Disremember behind the scenes
• Human Liabilities

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  Altered Lives Drama Three adult couples, friends since college, are leading the good life with their teenage kids in suburbia. Their similar lives become altered when a joke by a few of the teens goes terribly wrong.

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  Prey for the Day Thriller A couple takes a business trip from Los Angeles to Miami for a Real Estate deal that appears too good to be true. Their trip soon turns into a nightmare fight for survival as they are targeted by a con man and his henchmen in an abandoned community.

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  Nowhere-Ville Thriller Two longtime friends fly in a Cessna for an out of state camping trip. When their plane is disabled by a lightening storm they are forced to land in the desert. Out in the middle of nowhere, their trip turns into a horror filled fight for survival as they encounter a pair of escaped convicts with an agenda. 

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  Select Cuts Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror Two couples take a break from the city and rent a vacation home in a peaceful mountain community. Their dream trip soon turns into a mysterious, nightmare fight for survival as dire secrets within the community are revealed.

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  Desert Slayground Thriller Three women take a girls trip to Lag Vegas to help one of them forget about a recent divorce. They soon become victims in a territorial war for drugs and money between rival gangs.

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  Revived Drama Richard Bernier is a single, financially secure thirty something businessman who one day decides to take a road trip to get away from it all. Turns out there's something from his past he's also trying to come to terms with. As he starts trip trip he meets someone running from issues of her own and together they take a journey towards recovery.

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  Trilogy Of Good And Evil Horror ⋄ Fantasy Three stories of spirits, Good and Evil, genre on earth. Titles -  "A Cry For Help?"  "Men Excelling And Terrific" and  "The Devils' Apprentice".

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  Inhuman Thriller A professional couple, on a getaway trip to a mountaintop community to sell the husband's childhood home, become prey to a criminal element hiding from authorities in the nearby woods.

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  Stung Thriller Two LAPD officers, while on a routine call,  are targeted, taken prisoner, and subjected to a bizarre role reversal game of torture hosted by a criminal element hell bent on revenge.

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  Death Row Challenge (2023)
  Film by Wildsound Writer A story of karma as a corporate executive faces his biggest challenge from a masked figure who kidnaps him and puts him through a life or death challenge out in the middle of nowhere.

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  Desert Slayground (2023)
  Film by Wildsound Writer Three women take a trip to Las Vegas celebrating the divorce of one of them. Their dream trip turns into a nightmare fight for survival as they became prey for a criminal element just outside the city.

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  Stung (2022)
  Film by Wildsound (Crime) Writer Two LAPD are ambushed and kidnapped on a routine patrol. Taken to a n abandoned locale in the middle of nowhere they're subjected to a nightmare game created by a criminal element seeking revenge.

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  Severance Payback (2021)
  Film (short) by Wildsound Writer A strict company executive is terrorized in her home by outside forces seeking revenge.

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  Hometown Kill Box (2019)
  Film (short) by Wildsound Fest (Action) Writer A Marine Colonel, burnt out and suffering from PTSD after his platoon is ambushed outside Baghdad, retires early and heads out to the solitude of the desert to live out his remaining years. The peace and quiet are soon disturbed by fugitive bank robbers and warring drug cartels who come to the small town i the middle of nowhere. He finds himself fighting a new war at home.

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  Bad Neighbors (2018 - 2019)
  Film (short) by 13Horror.com Writer A Middle East war vet, on disability suffering from PTSD,. returns home and moves with his wife to a hillside home away from the city. The peace and quiet is soon interrupted by a group of marauding crazy people hiding out in the nearby hills. He must recall his forgotten military skills to help save his community from an onslaught

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  Prey for the day (2018)
  Film by Wildsound Fest table read (Thriller) Writer A couple takes a business trip from Los Angeles to Miami at the invite of a Real Estate investor. Hoping to strike it rich in Real Estate. Their dream trip soon turns into a nightmare fight for survival against a con man and his henchmen in an abandoned, derelict community.

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  Nowhere-Ville (2018)
  Film by Wildsound Fest table read Writer Two men on a camping trip, fly a Cessna from Los Angeles to New Mexico. On the way they are forced down in the middle of nowhere by a thunderstorm. Soon they realize their situation is worse then expected and the dream trip turns into a nightmare fight for survival against escaped convicts hiding out in the desert.

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  Revived (2018)
  Film (short) by Wildsound Fest table read Writer A single, successful businessman, mid 30s, realizes life is passing him by and there's more to life than work. He decides to take a long, overdue road trip to clear his head . Along the way he picks up a female companion trying to clear her own head. Along the way they both turn out to have life issues they're dealing with and the trip turns into a revival of both their spirits.

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  Sacrifices
  Film (short) by Wildsound Writer A police psychic helps track down victims of a serial killer as he dies in a shootout. She soon gets in over her head on a recent assignment.

• Winner Wildsound Best Scene "Death Row Challenge"
  (2023)

• Winner Wildsound Best Scene "Desert Slayground"
  (2023)

• Winner Wildsound Short Screenplay Festival "Severance Payback"
  (2021)

• Winner Wildsound Short Screenplay Festival "Sacrifices"
  (2021)

• Finalist Napa Film/Screenplay Festival "Discount Lodging"
  (2019)

• Gold Award Winner. Best Script. "Altered Lives" at the Mindfield Film Festival 2018
  (2018)

• Finalist 13Horror.com Screenplay contest for "Bad Neighbors"
  (2018)

• Winning Action Feature Screenplay "Prey for the Day" Action/Adventure Festival
  (2018)

• Top 15 winner "Hometown Kill Box" Wildsound Screenplay Festival
  (2018)

• Finalist in the Napa Film Festival for script "Revived"
  (2017)

• Finalist Breaking Walls Screenplay Contest for "Hometown Kill Box"
  (2017)

• Winner Action Feature Screenplay "Nowhere-Ville" Action/Adventure Festival
  (2016)

• Los Angeles Pierce College

• California State University - Northridge