Riley Blakeway (writer/director) is an award winning filmmaker with a self taught career that has spanned over the past 15 years. His films have screened at festivals around the world, including the UKMVA’s, the Vimeo awards, SXSW, Raindance, Ciclope, Kinsale, Semi Permanent and The New Orleans Film Festival. His work has been shared by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Pitchfork, Clash, ID, NPR, Rolling Stone and The Los Angeles Times. Most recently, Riley’s collaborations with Ghanian-Australian performing artist Genesis Owusu landed him his 9th vimeo staff pick and an award for Tripple J’s ‘Australian Music Video of the year. His experimental Australian short ‘INVINCIBL3’ (2021) premiered on Nowness and has since been featured by Director’s Library, the One Point Four Awards, the Webby Awards and took home ‘Best Direction in a Music Video’ at the 2022 Australian Directors Guild Awards.