Booth’s filmmaking career began in 2011 when his first attempt at making short film won a contest hosted by Vimeo and Canon and premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Booth was an audio engineer living in Texas at the time. After Sundance he came home and quit his job and dove headfirst into filmmaking.He spent the next few years cutting his teeth as a Director of Photography, working on commercial projects for Fox, MTV, Spotify, Under Armour, Pepsi, and Budweiser, as well as music videos for Atlantic Records, Sony, and Universal Music. He DP’d narrative and documentary features that have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festivals, among others. In 2016, Ryan DP’d a feature documentary that was commissioned by Alejandro G. Iñárritu that explores the modern implications of the themes woven into Iñárritu’s film, The Revenant. The film was directed by Eliot Rausch and the experience working with Eliot and Alejandro proved to be the catalyst that began his transition into directing. (Ask him about it sometime, it’s quite the story).Ryan has always been drawn to telling the stories of real people. He naturally began his directing work in documentaries. He created a doc series pilot called Five Star, about the insane world of college football recruiting. He then moved into branded content, directing projects for Spotify and Google.In the spring of 2017 he signed with Pulse Films and within a few months was directing national campaigns with Wieden + Kennedy for Fox Sports, Nike and Anheuser-Busch.In 2018, Ryan was nominated "Best New Director" by the AICP for his commercial work.In 2019-2020, Ryan was a co-showrunner on a doc series created by SpringHill Entertainment for ESPN. 2020 brought seismic changes to the filmmaking industry, but Ryan was busier than ever after developing complex remote directing systems to allow his team to continue production, safely. He directed campaigns for McDonalds, Walmart, Mitsubishi, and HBO during the pandemic.Ryan is currently seeking representation in Film/TV as he gears up to direct his first narrative feature.Ryan spent his formative years in Texas, but currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.