Diante Singley was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University, in 2014. He has worked as an assistant cameraman, a production assistant for Animal Planet, and most recently, as the personal assistant for directors Eli Roth and Michael Dougherty.

As a filmmaker, Singley has written and directed a variety of documentary shorts and short films that have tackled race, sexuality, economic status, and identity. He has won numerous awards including best new filmmaker at the San Francisco Black Film Festival as well as an audience award for his short Downpour Summer at the Hollyshorts film festival.