Ryan McKenna (filmmaker)

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, Controversies and Gerson Workout.

An alumnus of the Winnipeg Film Group,[5] he was cowriter with Matthew Rankin of the "Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto", a Dogme 95-style manifesto of rules for films set in Winnipeg.[6]

References
  1. T'cha Dunlevy, "Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali". Montreal Gazette, December 3, 2015.
  2. "“Anthropocene”, “Amazing Race Canada” among Canadian Screen Award nominees". RealScreen, February 8, 2019.
  3. Malcolm Fraser, "FNC: The First Winter". Cult MTL, October 12, 2012.
  4. Jeremy Shepherd, "Cranks captures the weirdness of Winnipeg in black and white comedy". North Shore News, October 3, 2019.
  5. Randall King, "Echoes of Winnipeg: Montreal-based filmmaker returns home to unveil latest feature". Winnipeg Free Press, January 28, 2016.
  6. "A Look into The Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto". Gimli Film Festival, May 14, 2020.


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