Ryan White is the director of Come See Me in the Good Light, which follows poet Andrea Gibson and their partner Megan Falley as they navigate an incurable cancer diagnosis with remarkable perspective and joy. The film, which won the Festival Favorite Award at the Sundance Film Festival, is produced by Tig Notaro, with Executive Producers Abby Wambach, Glennon Doyle, Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile. White also directed Into the Fire, which chronicles the tortuous journey of a mother searching for her missing biological daughter. The film was produced by Charlize Theron and premiered on Netflix, where it reached #2 for all films on the streamer. Previously, White directed Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Pamela, a love story, an intimate portrait of Pamela Anderson’s life and career. 

White also directed Amazon’s Good Night Oppy, the extraordinary fifteen-year journey of the Mars rover Opportunity and the surprising bond that formed between the robot and a team of scientists and engineers at NASA. Good Night Oppy won two Emmys and five Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary & Best Director. White previously directed Coded, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award and won best documentary short at Tribeca. White is also the director of the Emmy-nominated film Assassins, which premiered at Sundance and tells the story of the brazen murder of the brother of Kim Jong-un, and the trial of his two female assassins. In 2020, he directed Visible: Out on Television, the first documentary series on Apple TV+. The five-part series explores the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of television. 

In addition, White is the director of Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), which chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. White also directed The Keepers, an Emmy-nominated seven-part Netflix documentary series that investigates the unsolved murder of a young nun in Baltimore and the horrific secrets and pain that linger nearly five decades after her death. White is the director of The Case Against 8 (HBO), a behind-the-scenes look at the five-year battle to overturn Proposition 8, which had outlawed same sex marriage in California. The film won the Directing Award at Sundance and was nominated for two Emmys. White also directed Serena (Epix), a year in the life of tennis legend Serena Williams, Good Ol’ Freda (Magnolia Pictures), the story of the Beatles’ longtime secretary Freda Kelly, and Pelada (PBS, Cinetic), a journey around the world through the lens of pick-up soccer. White graduated from Duke University with a focus on Documentary Studies.