Ryan McKenna (filmmaker)
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Ryan McKenna is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] He is most noted for his 2017 short documentary film Voices of Kidnapping, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.[2]
He has also directed the theatrical feature films The First Winter,[3] The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le Cœur de Madame Sabali)[1] and Cranks,[4] and the short films Open Window, Chinatown, Bon voyage, Honky Tonk Ben, Four-Mile Creek,[5] Controversies, Gerson Workout, I Used to Live There (2023) and Solitudes (2025), premiered at the 78th Locarno Film Festival.[6]
An alumnus of the Winnipeg Film Group,[7] he was cowriter with Matthew Rankin of the "Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto", a Dogme 95-style manifesto of rules for films set in Winnipeg.[8]
