Biography
Kyle Selby is an Ecuadorian American screenwriter, actor, author, and journalist. Selby was born in Riverside, California and raised in Nuevo, California to an American father and immigrant mother from Guayaquil, Ecuador. He has two siblings - one brother and a half-sister. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Selby is a screenwriting fellow for Film Independent's 2024 Project Involve, an LA-based collaborative filmmaking program that supports emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities. His project, #1 Bad Dad held its First Look Screening at the Academy Award-qualifying Slamdance Film Festival in Los Angeles, 2025.
In college, Selby studied journalism and was quickly staffed as a writer, assistant copy editor, photographer, videographer, and political cartoonist at The Valley Chronicle newspaper in Hemet, California. Selby moved to Los Angeles in 2020 to study screenwriting at Columbia College Hollywood and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema Screenwriting.
In 2020, Selby debuted his first children's book, Christmas Isn't the Same Without You; a fictional, fully-illustrated supernatural story about grieving loved ones during the holidays, inspired by the real passing of his late canine companion. Selby is currently developing his follow-up - a coming of age, full-length graphic novel which will uniquely blend the genres of fantasy, mythic fiction, and sci-fi.
In 2022, Selby partnered with filmmaker Fiorella Vescovi Garcia to develop Mal de Amores, an LGBTQ short film with a focus on codependency and friendship, designed as a proof-of-concept for a TV comedy/drama series. The film premiered in Los Angeles at the 2022 Hola Mexico Film Festival and has since screened at over 24 domestic and international film festivals including Hollyshorts and Outfest Fusion and was nominated for Best Comedy Short Award 2024 by New Filmmakers LA. The duo are currently developing the concept into a TV series.
