Raymond started his career as an assistant at
Pinewood Film Studios, working under directors including
Kenneth Branagh,
Richard Attenborough, and
Neil Jordan. He also worked on British television commercials for directors such as Tarsem,
Daniel Barber,
Tony Kaye, and
Jonathan Glazer. Raymond started his career in 2009 by producing
Heartless, a British feature film starring
Jim Sturgess,
Eddie Marsan, and
Timothy Spall. In 2015, he made his directorial debut with
Desert Dancer, starring
Freida Pinto. The film was distributed by Relativity Media and opened the
Santa Barbara Film Festival. It also screened Lincoln Center, the US Capitol, the United Nations, and the
Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award. Desert Dancer was also nominated for the
Golden Frog film award at
Camerimage and won Best Dance Choreography at the
Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. In 2018 Raymond made
Souls of Totality with actress
Tatiana Maslany, where he filmed a single-take sequence during an actual solar eclipse. The film premiered at the 2018
HollyShorts Film Festival & won 12 Best Film awards, including Best Film of the Festival at
Raindance Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award at HollyShorts Film Festival, and the Grand Prix at the
Hiroshima International Film Festival. Richard won a Best Director award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for this film and was also short-listed for an Oscar. He directed the short film
A Million Eyes in 2019, featuring
Joe Morton and
Katie Lowes.
A Million Eyes won 10 Best Film awards, including the Grand Prix award at the Hiroshima International Film Festival and the and a Special Jury Award at
HollyShorts Film Festival, and was long-listed for the
2020 Oscars. In May 2019, a film directed by Raymond titled
One Thousand Paper Cranes was announced to begin production, with
Evan Rachel Wood playing
Eleanor Coerr, who wrote the 1977 book
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes about the story of
Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the
Hiroshima bombing in 1945. ==Filmography==