Richard Wolstencroft is an Australian filmmaker, film festival director, and writer best known for his second feature film Pearls Before Swine, a project completed over three years and starring Boyd Rice. He is the founder and director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), and the 23rd edition will be presented in December 2023.

His latest narrative feature project is an adaptation of the famous William Butler Yeats poem "The Second Coming". The film is a portmanteau film made up of seven stories. Shooting began in Thailand in October 2010 with Tierney, in addition to many underground 'superstars', and is scheduled for completion in two parts.