Person
Christopher Riley
Writing
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.
Known for
Red Line
Producer
After the Truth
Screenplay
O, Brawling Love!
Writer
Skin Deep
Executive Producer
No Reception
Director
Free of Charge
Writer
No Time Off for Good Behavior
Director
Filmography
- 2024No ReceptionDirector
- 2023O, Brawling Love!Writer
- 2023No Time Off for Good BehaviorDirector
- 2013Red LineProducer
- 2009Skin DeepExecutive Producer
- 2006Free of ChargeWriter
- 1999After the TruthScreenplay
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