Director

Christopher Riley

Writing

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.2

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 4500136

IMDb ID: nm0727003

Known for: Writing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1999 - 2024

Years active: 26

Average TMDB rating: 5.44

Also known as

Chris Riley

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Director (2)Writer (2)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Christopher Riley is a screenwriter, director and author with a career stretching from his groundbreaking 1999 film After The Truth, a multiple-award-winning German-language courtroom thriller, through screenwriting assignments for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures, Sean Connery’s Fountainbridge Films, Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Television Pictures and the Fox television network, to his directorial debut on the award-winning 2022 short film No Time Off for Good Behavior and his feature directing debut, the 2024 family revenge comedy No Reception. He is the author of the classic screenwriting reference The Hollywood Standard and The Defining Moment: How Writers and Actors Build Characters. He has taught screenwriting at the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 20 years.

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