My Work
The Price You Pay
Fall 2023
Role(s): Director
Lead Editor
Cinematographer
A reflexive piece highlighting Helene O'Brien who after a life together with her partner of over seventy years, is forced to lean on her eternal optimism to navigate the hardest challenge she's ever faced, losing her life partner. She is faced with a struggle on how to cope with loss and move forward.
Calculated Risk
Spring 2023
Role(s): Director
Lead DP/Cinematographer
Lead Editor
With different perceptions of risk, this young adventurer, Nathan, finds himself preparing for a large goal that he does not feel is very daunting to him, but his loved ones around him would disagree. This portrait dives into his internal dialogue around his future goals and the possible risks and relationship tensions that come with them.
Taking Shape
Spring 2023
Role(s): Lead DP/Cinematographer
A portrait piece centered around diving into the life of a very well acclaimed Hobie shaper, Marc Johnson, and his life in the shaping bay. An explanatory portrait doc showing what a life around surfing and supplying boards to the surfing community looks like.
Stills Gallery
BIO
Born and raised in Southern California Jack Ryan has been exposed to surf, action sports and media his entire life. After developing an interest in storytelling through photography he decided to take his storytelling to documentary filmmaking to hopefully one day bring more story and character development to the action sports industry. After growing up in Southern California and attending college at Chapman University for documentary filmmaking, he decided to move to Oahu where the hub of professional surfing is to pursue his interest in storytelling within action sports.
Growing up around surfing, snowboarding, climbing and all things outdoors, Jack has consumed all sorts of media content through his whole life learning from all the different types of character building and storytelling across brands. Now having a greater understanding of storytelling and having shot, directed and edited independent films, he hopes to take his passion to the action sports industry where he can combine dynamic action along with new and refreshing stories. Having focused on adventure photography around surf snow and climbing and filming around cinema verite documentary, he is ready to combine the two to create more compelling visuals and arcs for the characters within the action sports world.