Alyse Kane Riley

Writer/Director
Director and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Alyse

Award winning LA based filmmaker, Alyse Kane Riley has directed and produced upwards of 60 projects spanning in television, film, commercial and music video, while writing and developing an upcoming series, "MEADOW" 2024.

AKR was recently nominated as "Top Emerging Filmmaker" by Lonely Wolf International Film Festival. Her directorial credits include: REVLON, STAR WARS, LUCASFILM LTD., HYPEBEAST, MTV, BET, VEVO, REVOLT + more, holding a well-versed understanding of production from all aspects.

She has lectured at The Next Generation of Filmmakers panel at Paramount Studios, as well as for the University of North Texas and the University of Miami film programs. She continues to mentor filmmakers as a Fireside Panelist for Made in Her Image, and other filmmaking events and communities.

Her most recent film, Footprints in the Dirt was nominated for Best Of Fest at LA SHORTS 2023, and her film Come As You Are, a short biopic on Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, centers on mental health and addiction and was a 12x award winner in the film festival circuit (2021-22).

Alyse has recently signed on to direct the psychological horror film "LIMINALITY" written by Robb Edward Morris. (2023)

Gender:
Female

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Gods and Monsters Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A millennium before Homer wrote the Illiad, a young, naive Medusa wanders the streets of Mycenaean Greece in search of purpose, but the world quickly spirals out of control when Gods intervene and monsters emerge... Can Medusa and her unlikely allies unite Greek Kingdoms, Hittite mercenaries, divine Egyptian princes and Celtic druids to fight an even greater evil than each other?
Girls Guide: To Growing Up Without Mommy Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Through this “How To” we follow three sisters as they substitute societal double standards, media and peers to educate themselves on what it means to be female because their bipolar, absent mother has better things to do. It’s SHAMELESS meets LADYBIRD.
STRAY DOGS Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Drama After 30 Kilos of cocaine wash up onto a Miami shore, Jeff and his best friends don't have time to think twice before grabbing all they can. But what will happen when they learn that the drugs they stole belonged to an infamous Italian crime family, responsible for killing Jeff's father? All we know is, no high can last forever.(Inspired by true events about my father and grandfather)
MEADOW Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Horror Who is she? The curly haired, seemingly normal, new girl in town living in a trailer at the edge of the woods. But when John finds her years later, she's anything but normal. In fact, she's dead. Or something like it... Call it romance, or obsession; he tries to save what is left of her "life", when she remarkably ends up saving his and together they must confront the terrifying forces waiting to engulf their town.
LIMINALITY Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror Unwittingly part of a deadly game, LIMINALITY follows five strangers in the space between life and death, when Lucifer and God make a bet for their souls.

Credits

Footprints in the Dirt (2023)
Film by Alyse Kane Riley (Drama) Writer/Director Contrary to the biblical story of Eve being created from Adam's rib to be his companion, FOOTPRINTS IN THE DIRT is an altered version; a conversation between Gaia (Mother Earth) and Eve, if women preceded men.
Meadow (2023)
Series (Drama and Sci-Fi) Writer/Director
Come As You Are (2021 - 2022)
Short by Nine X Three Films (Drama) Writer/ Director
Ugly (2021)
Television by Nine X Three Films Director Tv Pilot-Series

Awards

Lonely Wolf Film Festival (Best Original Screenplay Nominee)
(2023)
LA Shorts (Best in Fest Nominee)
(2023)
Lonely Wolf Film Festival (Best Low Budget Film Nominee)
(2023)
Lonely Wolf Film Festival (Best Cinematography Nominee)
(2023)
Coverfly REDLIST TOP 4% for MEADOW
(2022)
Independent Short Awards (Best Director)
(2021)
Best Shorts x2 (Best Short Film & Best Director)
(2021)
Actors Awards x 3 (Best Actor/Best Actor in a Drama/ Best Supporting Actress)
(2021)
Lonely Wolf Film Festival (Emerging Filmmaker Nominee)
(2021)
Golden Short Film Festival x2 (Best Actor + Short Film)
(2021)