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Director

Ryan Eslinger

Bio

Ryan Eslinger was born in Alton, Illinois on August 9, 1981. MADNESS AND GENIUS (2003) was the filmmaker's first feature film. The film, which Ryan wrote, directed and produced, premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and was the 2003 recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology [awarded at the Hamptons Film Festival]. The film also garnered Ryan a 2004 Independent Spirit Award nomination [the Someone to Watch Award]. Ryan was honored with an acceptance into the 2004 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the 2005 Sundance Directors Lab and the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Program Le Atelier.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.