Richard Jobson

Richard Jobson started out as a music phenomenon when, at age 17, he became the front man for Scottish punk band The Skids, who had a string of hits from 1979 to 1981.

He went on to work as a presenter and film critic before making his first film project, a collaboration with the New York writer Joe Queenan, in which he adapted Queenan's essay, Mickey Rourke for a Day. He went on to adapt his own book, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, and in 2005 made the critical success A Woman in Winter.

Richard's 2008 feature, New Town Killers, starred Dougray Scott and opened at the London Film Festival.