Ryan Oksenberg

Since he was a kid, Ryan Oksenberg has been creating stories on his family camcorder or with his toys. He's a Los Angeles-based writer, director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008.

Oksenberg got started in documentaries with the online "cult favorite" documentary, "Cease To Exist" (2007), which explores the music motive to the Manson murders. His docuseries, "Life Line Booth" aired on Participant Media's TV network, Pivot. You can find these works and his short films on Alter, Amazon Prime and Vimeo. Notably, "Damage Control," which premiered at the 2018 Fantasia Film Festival and was awarded Best Thriller, Best Director and Best Actor by Top Shorts Film Festival in 2019.

In development is “The Whip,” a screenplay Ryan co-wrote with author Karen Kondazian based on her award-winning historical fiction novel. He also worked with the team behind “The Hunger Games” trilogy on “Bermuda Triangle,” a feature he also co-wrote.

“Together” is Ryan’s latest, a dark-comedy horror short that premiered at the 2019 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in the ‘Bucheon Choice’ international award competition. It made its North America premiere at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival.

Going on adventures, playing drums and helping out others where he can keeps Ryan inspired and grounds an overactive imagination he's had since he can remember.