Biography

Riley Rheyan is a London-based writer and director with a taste for emotionally grounded stories that occasionally punch you in the heart (but nicely). Originally from Canada, she attended the award-winning Vancouver Film School in 2011, fresh out of high school, armed with an arts bursary and unreasonable ambition. After graduating, she founded her first production company, where her indie shorts and scripts picked up numerous laurels on the festival circuit.

In 2015, Riley was selected for the Fulfilling Young Artist Mentorship Program, where she worked under Kyra Zagorsky (Continuum). She then joined the Crazy8s film No Reservations as Production Manager-her first real dive into controlled chaos (which she liked apparently). Over the years, she’s worked in various departments, but focused on roles as a producer, writer or director’s assistant on union sets.

Riley's directorial debut, Cherry Blossoms in March, a dark and personal story about her sister's life with cystic fibrosis, received over a dozen awards and selections internationally. Her script Bleed won the Raindance 3-2-1 worldwide screenwriting competition in 2020 and premiered in London in 2021.

Since relocating to the UK in 2023, Riley has produced an educational series with Oddizzi, filming in locations as varied as the River Thames, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Dunes of Namibia-earning stamps in her passport and lots of bug bites. She works in the UK and internationally as an independent Producer and aspiring Writer/Director.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous