Ryan Mullins Explained

Ryan Mullins
Birth Name:Ryan Mullins
Birth Date:1981
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Years Active:2006–present
Occupation:Film director

Ryan Mullins (born 1981) is a Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor. He is part of the Montreal-based Canadian film production company, EyeSteelFilm. His directing credits include the documentary short Volta, and the feature documentary The Frog Princes. The film won a Golden Sheaf at the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival, and was also awarded the NFB Kathleen Shannon Award for a documentary film that "allows people outside the dominant culture to speak for themselves".[1] At the 2015 Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, Mullins won the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award for Chameleon.[2]

Biography

Ryan made his first short documentary, Volta in 2009.[3] The film looks at an aging cinema in rural Ghana and the people it affected in this small town. Volta made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF),[4] and went on to play at South by Southwest (SxSW)[5] and various others. Mullins' first feature documentary The Frog Princes, co-directed with Omar Majeed, follows the behind-the-scenes efforts of a special needs theatre troupe, as they work to mount an ambitious adaptation of The Frog and the Princess. The film premiered at Hot Docs 2012.[6] Mullins is currently working on his second feature documentary, produced by Eyesteelfilm.

Filmography

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012 Winners The Official Web Site of The Yorkton Film Festival . Goldensheafawards.com . 2012-10-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015051832/http://www.goldensheafawards.com/default.aspx?page=25784 . 2012-10-15 .
  2. Web site: 2015 Awards . Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival . 2015-10-18.
  3. Web site: Volta 2009.
  4. Web site: Diasporic and Displacement Dialogues . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100914034532/http://tiff.net/Blogs/post/2009/09/12/Diasporc-Dialogue.aspx . 2010-09-14 .
  5. Web site: A Look At The SX Global Shorts Program . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101230042308/http://www.redcarpetcrash.com/2010/03/17/a-look-at-the-sx-global-shorts-program/ . 2010-12-30 .
  6. Web site: Now Hot Docs 2012.