Ryan Ward

BIOGRAPHIE

Writer/director Ryan Ward's debut feature film, Son of the Sunshine, about young man with Tourette's syndrome was nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for a Genie Award for 'Best Original Screenplay' alongside filmmakers such as Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild) and Larysa Kondracki (The Whistleblower, The Walking Dead). It premiered as one of Indiewire’s “Top 5 Films to Watch” at Slamdance Film Festival. Son of the Sunshine screened at over 30 festivals worldwide and in theaters across North America, winning a total of 13 awards, including ‘Audience Award’ at the Malibu Film Festival and 'Best Feature' at Film North. It was praised as "bleakly beautiful” and “daring" by the CBC and heralded as "a gem of filmmaking genius" by the National Post. Most recently, Ryan directed AmeriKa, an urban drama set in an alternate version of the US. His newest film, In the Beginning was Water and Sky, sheds light on the diverse experience of over 320,000 Native American children across North America who were forced into the Indian Boarding School system, thousands of whom did not survive or went missing. The film is generously support by Vision Maker Media, a division of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Minority Consortia, who will distribute the film on PBS in 2017.

FILMOGRAPHIE