Ryan McKenna is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] He is most noted for his 2017 short documentary film Voices of Kidnapping, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.[2]
He has also directed the theatrical feature films The First Winter,[3] The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le Cœur de Madame Sabali)[1] and Cranks,[4] and the short films Open Window, Chinatown, Bon voyage, Honky Tonk Ben, Four-Mile Creek,[5] Controversies, Gerson Workout and I Used to Live There.
An alumnus of the Winnipeg Film Group,[6] he was cowriter with Matthew Rankin of the "Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto", a Dogme 95-style manifesto of rules for films set in Winnipeg.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b T'cha Dunlevy, "Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali". Montreal Gazette, December 3, 2015.
- ^ "“Anthropocene”, “Amazing Race Canada” among Canadian Screen Award nominees". RealScreen, February 8, 2019.
- ^ Malcolm Fraser, "FNC: The First Winter". Cult MTL, October 12, 2012.
- ^ Jeremy Shepherd, "Cranks captures the weirdness of Winnipeg in black and white comedy". North Shore News, October 3, 2019.
- ^ Ben Waldman, "Generosity and ghost stories". Winnipeg Free Press, October 28, 2023.
- ^ Randall King, "Echoes of Winnipeg: Montreal-based filmmaker returns home to unveil latest feature". Winnipeg Free Press, January 28, 2016.
- ^ "A Look into The Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto". Gimli Film Festival, May 14, 2020.
External links
edit- Ryan McKenna at IMDb
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