Kelley Sane found a roundabout way into screenwriting. He studied economics, played professional tennis and worked as a photographer (he's photographed Kevin Spacey, Charlize Theron and ads for Pepsi). He started in Paris; modeled in Japan; spent time in Vienna, London and Istanbul; and worked in Milan as a professional photographer for three years - where, he says, "I first started writing almost out of sheer boredom."
In 1996, he directed his first script, a campy, low-budget musical comedy, Francesca Page, which played in the Midnight section of the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.