Riley Stearns is an American filmmaker best known for directing the films Faults and The Art of Self-Defense.
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In 2010, he married actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he met during an ocean cruise in 2002. She starred in his first two short films, before starring in his feature film debut, Faults in 2014.
The couple separated in 2017 and divorced that year.
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.
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Stearns worked as a writer for the Cartoon Network show Tower Prep and for the T.V. series, My Own Worst Enemy and Bionic Woman.
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.
He released his feature debut Faults in 2014. It was later chosen to be part of the Best Unproduced Scripts Black List of 2013.
Stearns wrote and directed a second feature, The Art of Self-Defense, which was released in 2019.
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