Riley Blakeway
Directing
Biography
Riley Blakeway is an Australian born award winning filmmaker, selected as a 2025 Rising Talent by Inside Film Magazine. His music videos, commercials and shorts have screened at festivals worldwide, including SXSW, the UKMVA’s, the Vimeo Awards, Raindance, Ciclope and The New Orleans Film Festival. Most recently, Riley’s narrative short A Thousand Odd Days premiered in The Best of Australian Shorts at Melbourne Int Film Festival and won Best Direction at both Flickerfest and St Kilda in 2025. Riley’s most recent short INFINIT3 was written for and starring Sophie Wilde will premiere at MIFF this August.
Known For
In the liminal space between life and death, Lucy wanders through the fractured memories of her past in search of peace.
INFINIT3
A young man reflects on a day spent with his estranged mother, in an attempt to understand her enduring trauma and its effect on their relationship.
A Thousand Odd Days
An experimental short film exploring fragile masculinity, small town mentality and cultural confusion, following a young Australian man on a spirit quest for significance and identity.
Invincibl3
Vaivén follows three generations of beachgoers from sunrise to sunset in Barcelona - a study of patterns, rhythm, and the natural cadence of a day at the beach.