Ryan Binse

Ryan Binse is that guy who somehow packed a couple of lifetimes into one. Grew up in Houston, took a wild detour through the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program—yeah, nuclear, not exactly a lazy river ride—and wound up bouncing around the globe, swapping stories with locals in places the tourists never see. Dive bars, late nights, everybody’s got the same complaints and obsessions: kids slacking off, questionable romantic partners, and can you believe what happened on Breaking Bad last night? Turns out, the world really isn’t that big. Ryan clocked that, hard. After eleven years of service (and bagging a degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology—casual), he finally aimed that curiosity and storyteller itch toward film. Landed in LA, got himself a certificate at UCLA, then hustled into the American Film Institute’s Producing program, where he basically lived in creative mode. Interned at HBO, graduated, immediately jumped into the deep end as Joel Silver’s assistant (yup, the Die Hard guy), and finished his thesis, “A Rodeo Film.” That little project went full beast-mode: DGA Grand Prize, Golden Tadpole at Camerimage, sold to HBO. Not bad for a student gig. Since then, he’s been everywhere—line producing “The Wedding Pact 2,” getting “The Nightmare Machine” off the ground, and working with heavyweights like Darius Dawson and Peter Farrelly to turn “A Rodeo Film” into a feature. His next one, “In Your Head,” nearly broke the scoring system at Slated. Now he’s freelancing around LA, juggling features and series, repped by GSK Talent and refusing to slow down.