Born on July 8th, 2004, Dylan McCully was raised in Joliet, Illinois. From an early age, he had a passion for storytelling and started to apply it to film in his teenage years. In 2022, at age 18, he started attending Columbia College Chicago with a focus in directing and two years later, he completed his first short film: "Rose". His films typically explore themes of alienation, isolation spirituality and modernity.