Rick Alyea was born Richard Allan Robert Alyea in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 2, 1978 and has lived there for his entire 26 years.

In 1998, his family took a trip to Los Angeles and Rick knew the minute he set foot in Universal Studios that this was the career he wanted to pursue. With no prior experience Rick began writing. He found it therapeutic. There were no boundaries. Rick continued to write and write and from 2001-2003 Rick had written six features and three short films. His writing was merely a gateway for what he truly longed for, Directing. In 2002, Rick enrolled at VFS where his script was chosen to be a class project in which he would get to produce and direct, but most importantly it gave him the confidence to continue pursuing his dream.

In 2004 Rick shot his first feature film Part of the Game for only 15,000 dollars. The film was selected to debut at the Whistler Film Festival in December of that year and competed for Best Canadian Film (Phillip Borsos Award). Instantly garnering respect from his local peers, Rick has continued to forge forward and make his mark on the industry.

In 2005 he has already shot the short film Puck This which he’d like to have play in all the Canadian film festivals this year. He also has his second feature Inconsequential Consequences set to lens in April of this year, whereby he did pre-production on both films simultaneously.

Rick approaches film-making a slightly different way by generating money through private investors, thus letting him control every aspect of his film. When asked on why he does movie-making this way he says “Until someone hands me money and a script to shoot, this is the way it’s got to be”.

If all goes according to plan, Rick should have some studios and local production companies merge with him in the very near future.