Rylan Friday

Background

About Rylan Friday

Rylan Friday (Saulteaux Ojibway/Plains Cree/Métis) is a multidisciplinary award-winning director, curator, writer, and producer from Cote First Nation, Saskatchewan. With a passion for honest discourse surrounding LGBTQ2+ and Indigenous representation while drawing inspiration from art-house cinema, Rylan infuses a sense of surrealism into his work while maintaining grounded realism to deliver authentic performances. Rylan specializes in: Writing, Directing, Producing, Film & TV peer-to-peer mentorship, Film Festival programming & curation, arts administration, grant coaching and funding program design, radio & broadcast communications. Rylan produced,"Portraits From a Fire," which earned him the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award at the CMPA Indie Screen Awards during Prime Time Ottawa 2022, as well as the Leo Award for Best Motion Picture. Rylan has directed the critically acclaimed short "Terror/Forming," which has screened at numerous film festivals such as the VIFF, PDXFF, Fantastic Fest, VHSFF, Māoriland, and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. It has won the Best Short Horror Film award at the 2023 London Independent Film Festival and Best BC Short out of Vancouver Horror Show. Currently Rylan is developing the feature film follow-up, Terror/Rising, his other works include “The Sound of You Collapsing” & “Musk.”.