Riley Stearns

Initially wanting to be a musician, Stearns became involved in filmmaking after visiting various movie sets and after being advised on being a screenwriter by Final Destination 3 director James Wong.[4]

Stearns worked as a writer for Cartoon Network's Tower Prep, and for the television series My Own Worst Enemy and Bionic Woman.[5] His short film The Cub became his first film to be premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and also to be featured by Vice Media.[6][7]

He released his feature debut Faults in 2014. It was later chosen to be part of the Best Unproduced Scripts Blacklist of 2013. [citation needed] Stearns wrote and directed a second feature, The Art of Self-Defense, which was released in 2019. [1] In 2022, he released his third feature film Dual.[8]