Ryan Velasquez

Ryan is a writer/director who most recently created a five-part digital series for MACRO called RE-DATE, which is currently in development for TV.

His short before that DROWNING premiered on PBS, and took home the Imagen Award for Best Short. He is a proud alumnus of Film Independent's Directing Lab, Project Involve, the FOX Comedy Apprenticeship & Global Director Initiative, Ryan Murphy’s TV Directing Mentorship, and AFI’s Directing MFA program where his thesis OJALA won a student DGA Award.

For the last six years, he's been the creative lead of The Academy's (aka. The Oscars) docu-series Academy Originals, where his work has won two Gold Clio's, a CommArts Ad Award, and been a Webby Nominee.