DAVID RIKER (writer, editor) is an American screenwriter and film director. Riker is a graduate of the New York University's Graduate Film School where, in 1992, he made his first fictional film, The City. The short received critical acclaim and, among other accolades, won the Gold Medal for Dramatic Film at the Student Academy Awards and the Student Film Award from the Directors Guild of America.
His 1998 feature La Ciudad (The City), a neo-realist film about the plight of Latin American immigrants living in New York City, won awards at the SXSW, Havana, San Sebastian, and Human Rights Watch film festivals. His film, The Girl, starring Abbie Cornish and Will Patton, premiered at 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. Riker received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance as co-writer of Sleep Dealer. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East and teaches at Columbia University.
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