Maureen Ryan

Background

About Maureen Ryan

MAUREEN A. RYAN Independent Producer Maureen A. Ryan is a producer based in New York concentrating on narrative and documentary feature films. She is the co-producer of James Marsh’s MAN ON WIRE, a documentary that won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary and the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Her other co-producer credits include DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD which won the 2020 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Innovation in Non-Fiction Storytelling, garnered the top two Critics Choice Documentary awards for Best Picture and Best Director, won two IDA awards and has been nominated for the PGA award, shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar and Best Documentary BAFTA. She also co-produced BECOMING which was nominated for four Emmy awards and shortlisted for Best Documentary BAFTA, and PROJECT NIM which won the Sundance Best Director of World Cinema Documentary and was nominated for a BAFTA and Emmy. Ryan was co-executive producer of the USA Network television pilot STANISTAN and the re-creations producer for Johanna Hamilton's feature 1971 and Alex Gibney’s award-winning feature MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. Her producer credits include WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, THE GATES and BOMBER. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and her numerous productions have won many additional awards including a Peabody, two Cinema Eye awards, a Critics Choice award, three AICP awards, a Billboard award, a Freddie, a CMA award and an ACM award. Ryan is the Director of Production and Associate Professor at Columbia University's MFA Film program and her books include Producer to Producer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Low Budget, Independent Film Producing, 2nd edition and Film+Video Budgets, 6th edition. Her website is ProducertoProducer.com and she received her MFA degree in Film from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.