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Ryan Mullins (born 1981) is a Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor. He is part of the Montreal-based Canadian film production company, EyeSteelFilm. His directing credits include the documentary short ''

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'', and the feature documentary ''

The Frog Princes ''The Frog Princes'' is a 2011 documentary film directed by Omar Majeed and Ryan Mullins. This film follows the story of a Montreal-based theater troupe training for a play adaptation of the fairytale ''The Princess and the Frog.'' All twenty acto ...

''. The film won a Golden Sheaf at the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival, and was also awarded the NFB Kathleen Shannon Award for a documentary film that "allows people outside the dominant culture to speak for themselves". At the 2015

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film festival in Toronto, Mullins won the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award for ''

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''.

Biography

Ryan made his first short documentary, ''

'' in 2009. The film looks at an aging cinema in rural Ghana and the people it affected in this small town. ''Volta'' made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and went on to play at

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(SxSW) and various others. Mullins' first feature documentary ''

'', co-directed with

Omar Majeed Omar Majeed is a Pakistani Canadian film director and producer who studied cinema at York University Film School and later on studied editing at the International Academy of Design in Toronto. He is the son of Pakistani actress and singer Musarr ...

, follows the behind-the-scenes efforts of a special needs theatre troupe, as they work to mount an ambitious adaptation of ''The Frog and the Princess''. The film premiered at ''

'' 2012. Mullins is currently working on his second feature documentary, produced by Eyesteelfilm.

Filmography

;Director *2009: ''

'' (short) *2011: ''

'' (documentary) *2015: Chameleon (documentary)

References

External links

Eyesteelfilm.com
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