Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Manitoba
- City: Winnipeg, Manitoba
- How do you Identify?: Indigenous, Two Spirit, He, Him, His
- Age: 1984
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted and Documentary
- Union: DGC
- Interested In: TV Writing Room, Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material, and Shadowing
- Recent Credits: Producer - When The Children Left, Creator - Director of Daybreak people, Creator - Producer - iNdigiThreads, Writer - Producer - Directors - Lady in the Woods
- Favourite Movies: The Last Unicorn, The Fifth Element, Once Were Warriors,
- Favourite TV Shows: Shameless, Rupaul Drag Race, And lots of Documantaries shows
- Pitch a Project: My sassy sasquatch is a dramedy about the lives of a young boy, a sasquatch, and princess changed forever when the young boy gets lost in the Manitoban wilderness
- Contact Information: rcwryan@icloud.com
Bio
Ryan Cooper (Wilson) is a Indigenous, two spirited, LGBTQ filmmaker from treaty one territory Peguis First Nation and graduate of the National Screen Institute’s CBC New Indigenous Voices program, under the direction of legendary film and television producer Lisa Meeches (Ice Road Truckers, We Were Children, Taken).
Ryan is focused on producing and writing contemporary, cultural & modern stories in a authentic way through scripted and factual storytelling. Ryan Is also apart of the 2018 NSI indigidocs program where he and a teammate Charlene Moore had the opportunity to create a 10 minute documentary.
Ryan is also the creator of two web series one titled Daybreak People that will be air on Fibe 1 TV early next year, and Imaginenative/APTN pitch winning series iNdigiThreads. Ryan is 1 half of the TELEFILM TALENT TO WATCH 2019 were he and team mate Adeline Bird were awarded $125,000.00 to put toward the series iNdigiThreads.
Ryan also studied New Media at Interactive Design Nu Media, and trained in acting at the Academy of Acting. He has trained in theatre at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, and film and theatre at the University of Winnipeg. Ryan has written many scripts, some of which are optioned and has worked on various films, in various roles. He looks forward to bringing empowerment through film and television, and the arts, to his home community.
Intro
This website is a great opportunity to reach out to other POC and maybe collaborate on projects.
Reel/Clips
Here is the first project I ever made, it was all done by me. This small project was shot in a day and was the reason I got funding for my first web series daybreak people. this just proves you dont need the best quality product as long as you have a good story.
Link: https://vimeo.com/248256720
PW: Daybreakpeople