Riley Blakeway Writer / Director
Riley Blakeway (Australasian reps: DIVISION)

Riley Blakeway is an Australian born award winning filmmaker with a self taught career that’s spanned for more than 15 years. His dedication to authenticity, performance and emotional storytelling has garnered success across music videos, commercials and narrative shorts. His films have screened at festivals around the world, including SXSW, the UKMVA’s, the Vimeo Awards, Raindance, Ciclope 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. Riley’s collaborations with Ghanaian-Australian performing artist Genesis Owusu landed him his 9th vimeo staff pick and a J-Award for ABC/Triple 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. Riley’s Narrative short ‘A Thousand Odd Days’ starring Tom Wilson and Angie Milliken is out for competition in 2024, premiered at the 72nd Melbourne International Film Festival and took home Best Direction at FLICKERFEST 2025.