Hi, I'm Ryan Couldrey ("Coal-Dree") | (he/him)
Based out of Toronto, Canada, Ryan is a genre-focused DGC director and editor who's directed 17 short films, a cake baking web series that blends reality DIY Youtube with horror/sci-fi homage, and a feature film adaptation of the graphic novel 'Snow'. His films have screened internationally at genre festivals like Brussels International Fantastic, Fantasia, Fantaspoa, FilmQuest, Salem Horror, Flickers Vortex, LUSCA Fantastic, Celluloid Screams, Blood in the Snow, Canadian Film Fest and more.
Based out of Toronto, Canada, Ryan is a genre-focused DGC director and editor who's directed 17 short films, a cake baking web series that blends reality DIY Youtube with horror/sci-fi homage, and a feature film adaptation of the graphic novel 'Snow'. His films have screened internationally at genre festivals like Brussels International Fantastic, Fantasia, Fantaspoa, FilmQuest, Salem Horror, Flickers Vortex, LUSCA Fantastic, Celluloid Screams, Blood in the Snow, Canadian Film Fest and more.
In 2024, his horror film 'Time Eater' was selected for the DGC's Short Film Fund and will be submitted to genre festivals in 2025, followed by development of the feature film version. In 2022 he was invited to the Reykjavik International Film Festival's Talent Lab to screen his Ontario Arts Council funded film 'The Whisper of Succulents' which was nominated for the festival's Golden Egg award.
Ryan is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) and a Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) associate member.
Get in touch, ryancouldrey@gmail.com
Zoe LeGros and Ryan on the set of 'You Have Reached Your Destination'
Ryan Couldrey at FilmQuest 2023
Ryan and actress Ellie Posadas at the premiere of 'Baby Blue Canoe' at Toronto After Dark
Ryan and actress Samantha Wan on the set of 'Expecting'
