Ryan Nielsen
Crew, Director, Production Assistant and Screenwriter
Los Angeles, California
August 2021
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About Ryan
Recently graduated from the University of Iowa where I studied Cinema and English/Creative Writing. Looking to broaden my knowledge of the film industry and the film art form. Hopes to write and direct my own features, and have spent most of my recent time trying to better myself as a screenwriter.
I am originally from Fort Dodge, Iowa. From as far back as I can remember I have been mesmerized by films. Most of my early memories are situated in front of my family's box television that sat on the floor in the corner of the living room, my brother and I constantly watching, rewinding, and watching films again. As the youngest in the family, I was exposed to films and music a six-year-old perhaps shouldn't be exposed to. Nevertheless, I cherish that my parents found that I was mature enough to handle the material because some of the earlier films that I loved (Halloween, Terminator 2, The Godfather, and The Aviator) opened my eyes to the many possible ways to create in the art of film. I just hope that I can use cinema to give back to someone else as much as has been given to me.
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Dog Days Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent ⋄ Crime Over the course of a summer, an aimless and lonely twenty-two-year-old finds companionship in a group of thieves, while the boy's estranged father - an aging police detective - unknowingly pursues his own son.
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The Ranch Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Set in New Mexico in the 1950s, Moira Ranch is a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol addiction. When Maria, a young woman from Baltimore, is mysteriously sentenced to the ranch, she hopes to put her dark past of drug abuse and the death of her young daughter behind her. Instead, Maria is slowly confronted with the realization that she may be under the care and influence of a religious order that will not allow her to leave. And that's not all, there's a beam of light protruding from the barn out back, and it doesn't appear to be of this earth.
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Red Wagon (
2019 )
Film (short) by University of Iowa Cinema Department (Short) Director The daily habits of a woman who lives out of her car. Improvised. -
Drained (
2019 )
Film (short) by University of Iowa Cinema Department Director An overworked woman returns home to notice a mysterious light emanating from her kitchen sink. Shot on 16mm
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