- Born
- Birth nameJames Patrick Riley
- J.P. Riley is a television, music video, commercial, feature film director/producer whose work has been selected for a variety of festivals and awards, including: SXSW, AFI Best of Fest, Sundance Institute Filmmakers Fund, Independent Film Festival of Boston, Independent Filmmakers Showcase (IFS), Sarasota International Film Festival, Telluride International Film Festival, HD Fest, Columbia's Pictional Festival, The Chicago Film Festival, Flicker Fest, Midwest Independent Film Festival, and has won multiple Audience and Jury Awards at The Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and London United Film Festivals.
Some of his music video clients include The Verve Pipe (RCA Records), The Barenaked Ladies (Warner Bros/Nettwerk Music), The Plain White T's (Hollywood Records), Rachael Yamagata (Arista/RCA Victor), The Baldwin Brothers (TVT Records), Oh My God (Split Red Records/WEA), Bayside (Wind-Up Records), Company of Thieves (Wind-Up Records), Mutts (Sony Music/The Orchard), and Queen Latifah (Capitol Records), OK Go (EMI), Johnny Cash (American/Columbia), Taylor Swift (Republic Records), and Kristen Ford/Ani DiFranco (Righteous Babe Records).
His commercial clients include, VH1, MTV New Media, Chipotle, Frontier Airlines, ESPN, The Chicago Sun-Times News Group, and Comcast. His commercial work has won two Telly Awards and a W3 Award.
His debut feature film, Act Naturally (2011) was released by Cinetic Rights Management/FilmBuff/Gunpowder & Sky in the spring of 2013.
The indie film's theatrical clothing-optional screening tour landed he and his co-producer, Katie L. Hall on the cover of The Los Angeles Times and USA Today. Act Naturally (2011) spent three weeks in the top spot on Prescreen's VOD portal, as well as Best Buy's Cinema Now Most Viewed Releases, and iTunes Must-See Summer Comedies List.
J.P. has produced several other indie films including Hannah Rosner's Park City (2015) and Samantha Buck's short film, Depends (2013), as well as her 2013 Peabody Award winning doc, Best Kept Secret (2013).
He has directed & produced episodes of ABC's Pan Am, Stumptown (2019) Home Economics (2021) and AMC+/IFCs Cooper's Bar (2022).
Most recently. Riley served as Splinter Unit Director on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) for Netflix.
J.P. is originally from Indianapolis, IN and graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a B.A. in Radio, Television & Film. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Directed his first two major-label music videos for RCA Recording artists, The Verve Pipe and Rachael Yamagata before graduating from Northwestern University's Radio/TV/Film program.
- Was a production assistant to Jay Bennett and Jonathon Parker at Wilco during the summer of 2000. With the help of Jonathon Parker, he used Wilco's recording equipment on nights and weekends to track the music to his first short film entitled, Horizon.
- His parents run a nudist club, Sanibel Naturists, located on a private beach on the gulf coast of Florida.
- Was a College Marketing Representative for Sony Music from fall 2000 to 2001. He exited Sony to direct his first music video for The Verve Pipe.
- Sister, Amy Riley-Lucas - is a partner and entertainment and media lawyer at O'Melveny and Myers, LLP.
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