Ryan White
Director, Cinematographer, & Editor

                                                                       photo by Bui My Trang/WWF

An avid environmentalist and experienced filmmaker, Ryan White earned his BA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2003. His student film, After the Gold Rush (2003), an ethnography of a father-son mining team living near Death Valley National Monument was an official selection of the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival 2004. From 2004 to 2007, Ryan lived in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he worked for the WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Greater Mekong Program as Film Advisor. During that time, he wrote, directed, filmed, and edited eight short awareness-raising documentaries for broadcast on Vietnam Television (VTV). Two of these videos were also screened in Europe, Trading Bears (2007) in Italy at the EcoVision International Festival of Environment and Cinema 2007, and A Delicate Balance (2007) at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris for an event organized by the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Other footage Ryan shot for WWF has been provided to the History Channel, National Geographic, the European Union, Agence France - Presse, Popcorn Films, and 60 Minutes. Ryan is a Soulbird, and is currently living in Bangkok working freelance; he continues to provide footage to WWF and focus on video work for non-profit organizations.