Christopher Riley

Christopher Riley is a screenwriter director and author with a career stretching from his groundbreaking 1999 film After The Truth a multipleawardwinning Germanlanguage courtroom thriller through screenwriting assignments for Disneys Touchstone Pictures Sean Connerys Fountainbridge Films Paramount Pictures Mandalay Television Pictures and the Fox television network to his directorial debut on the awardwinning 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