Richard received a great review in Inside Toronto.

Richard E. Stark’s grandmother will finally have her wish of seeing her grandson’s name on the big screen come true when his movie, 30-Love, premiers Friday, Aug. 23 at the Montreal World Film Festival.

After escaping Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, his grandparents and father settled in Montreal, where his grandmother lived for 20 years before moving to North York.

Stark’s family, including his 87-year-old grandmother, will return to the city which represented freedom and a new life, he said.

Filmed in Los Angeles, where Stark has lived for the past nine years, 30-Love is a short comedy about Bruce (Ludwig Manukian) who drags his wife Jodi (Jennifer Cooley) to try to join a ritzy country club that’s way beyond their means. To get in, they must impress its snobby board members, an obnoxiously perfect couple, who have the wealth and status Bruce so badly wants. What begins as a friendly tennis game quickly deteriorates into an all-out class war, as the perfect couple take every opportunity to humiliate their opponents. Under the pressure of the match, Bruce and Jodi’s strained relationship is put to the test in front of a pretentious country club audience. Just as it seems as if his marriage is falling apart, Bruce realizes that his relationship with his wife is more important than his pursuit of social status....

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2013, Colour, Canada, Focus on World Cinema (short movies) 
Original language : english 
Subtitles language : french

Production Team

Director : Richard Stark

Screenwriter : Richard Stark

Cinematographer : Richard Stark, Dion Watkins

Editor : Bret Cornish, Richard Stark

Cast : Ludwig Manukian, Jennifer Cooley, Chris Akers, Michelle McGinty

Music : Taras Tkachenko

Film production and Sales : Rchard Stark, 6275 Canterbury Drive, Unit 302, Culver City, CA 90230 (États-Unis), richardestark@live.com

Synopsis

Bruce pushes his wife Jodi to try joining a ritzy country club that's way beyond his means. To get in, they must impress an obnoxiously perfect couple. 
 

Director

-- Toronto-born Richard Stark studied film at USC in Los Angeles where he works as a writer, editor and director. He previously directed An Innocent Family (2012).