Rick Dugdale is a Canadian film producer and director. He is the president and chief executive officer of Enderby Entertainment, which he co-founded with Daniel Petrie, Jr. in 2006, and a co-founder of the film-distribution platform Vuele.
Career Dugdale joined Daniel Petrie, Jr. & Company as vice president of Production in 2003 before becoming a full partner in the company in 2004. He founded Enderby Entertainment with Petrie in 2006. Dugdale gained experience in the public sector of financing and investor relations while working in oil, gas, and uranium markets.
Dugdale produced Dawn Patrol (2014) and Rosemont (2015), both directed by Petrie. He also produced About Cherry. For Tony-Seven Films, Enderby Entertainment's genre division, Dugdale was an executive producer of The Speak, Vile, 5 Souls, and A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return. He produced A Haunting at Silver Falls, No Tell Motel, and Blood Shed.
Dugdale produced and financed the thriller Blackway in 2015. Directed by Daniel Alfredson, it was adapted by Joseph Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs from the novel Go with Me by Castle Freeman Jr. The film premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival before its 2016 release.
In 2017, Dugdale produced the psychological thriller An Ordinary Man, directed by Brad Silberling and starring Ben Kingsley. He also produced Night Hunter, starring Henry Cavill, Kingsley, and Alexandra Daddario.
Dugdale produced the Intrigo trilogy, comprising Intrigo: Death of an Author, Intrigo: Dear Agnes, and Intrigo: Samaria. The films were directed by Alfredson, adapted from works by Håkan Nesser, and filmed in Serbia, Belgium, Croatia, and Slovenia.
Dugdale produced the Second World War action thriller Recon, directed by Robert Port. It premiered at the 2019 Austin Film Festival and was released in the United States in 2020.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dugdale directed and produced Zero Contact, his feature directorial debut. He remotely supervised filming in 17 countries, with actors' homes serving as sets. Starring Anthony Hopkins, the film was released internationally through Vuele in 2021 and in the United States by Lionsgate Films in 2022. Dugdale co-founded Vuele as a joint venture between Enderby Entertainment and CurrencyWorks.
In 2020, Enderby and the technology company Draganfly launched Safe Set Solutions, which provided screening and on-set measures for film and television productions during the pandemic.
Dugdale was an executive producer of Fool's Paradise and the documentary Mediha in 2023. He subsequently served as an executive producer of Longing and Crescent City in 2024, produced Wish You Were Here in 2025, and was an executive producer of Turbulence.
In 2012, the Austin Film Festival added the Enderby Entertainment Award to its screenplay competition, with finalists and winners selected by Dugdale and Petrie. The partnership later expanded to include the Enderby Entertainment Filmmaking Fellowship, open to submissions in the festival's Narrative Short and Narrative Student Short competitions.
Membership Dugdale is a member of the Producers Guild of America and Directors Guild of Canada.
Filmography Year Film RoleTBA Peace Producer2019 Intrigo: Dear Agnes Producer2018 Intrigo: Death of an Author ProducerTBA Intrigo: Samaria Producer 2018 Night Hunter Producer2017 An Ordinary Man Producer2015 Blackway Producer2015Rosemont Producer2014 Dawn Patrol Producer 2014 Blood Shed Producer2013 5 Souls Executive producer2013 A Haunting at Silver Falls Producer2012 No Tell Motel Producer2012About Cherry Producer2011 The Speak Executive producer2011 Vile Executive producer
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