Ryan White

Ryan White is a documentary producer and director best known for his Netflix documentary film Pamela, a Love Story, Amazon Prime's Good Night Oppy, which won five Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary and Best Director, and his Emmy-nominated Netflix series The Keepers. White's previous films include the HBO movie The Case Against 8, which won Sundance's Directing Award and was nominated for two Emmys, the documentary film Ask Dr. Ruth, and Coded, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award. Biography Ryan White graduated from Duke University with a Certificate in Documentary Studies. In 2007, White co-founded Tripod Media with his best friend and producing partner, Jessica Hargrave. In 2010, White made his directorial debut with Pelada (PBS, Cinetic), a journey around the world through the lens of pick-up soccer. This was followed by his 2013 film Good Ol’ Freda (Magnolia Pictures), which tells the story of the Beatles’ longtime secretary Freda Kelly. White directed HBO Documentary film The Case Against 8 in 2014, a behind-the-scenes look inside the five-year battle to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award, nominated for two Emmys and won Sundance's Directing Award. That year White was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow along with Ben Cotner, his co-director on the film.