RYAN WEIBUSH
1622 Altura Drive | Missoula, MT 59802
h: 406.235.2001 | c: 216.905.9369
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Film & Media Arts - Department of Film & Media Arts, University of Utah 2015
M.A., English with Creative Writing emphasis - Department of English, University of Maine 2007
B.A., English - English Department, Ohio University 2004
B.S., Audio Production - School of Telecommunications, Ohio University 2004
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN FILM & MEDIA
2020: Location Scout, Yellowstone Season 4, Viacom, Darby, MT
Script Supervisor, SHTF, Independent Feature, Butte, MT
Dir. Drew Mylrea, Starring: Alicia Silverstone & Stephen Moyer
2016 – Present: Programmer, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, MT
Film Curation
2015: Script Supervisor Assistant, MOSAIC, Dir. Steven Soderbergh, HBO Films
Organization and updates to 300+ page non-linear script
Editor, Warm Springs Productions, Missoula, MT
Editing of nationally televised programs utilizing Avid Media Composer
2013 – 2015: Shooter/Editor, Zions Bank / Zions Direct: Salt Lake City, UT
Filmed and edited short form videos in order to expand branding of institutional financing
2013 – 2014: Sound Mixer, Sundance Institute Directors Labs, Sundance, UT
2013: Editor/ Producer, Utah Department of Health: Salt Lake City, UT
Filmed and edited short form videos meant to inform public of targeted health initiatives
2007 – 2010: Production Crew, WVIZ/PBS, Cleveland, OH
In studio and field camera operator for broadcast productions
2003 – 2004: Traffic Assistant, WOUB, Athens, OH
CREDITS/SCREENINGS
Director
"The Orange Candidate"
Documentary short
A strange campaign unfolds in a small Montana town.
2021: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, MT
"Join the Club"
Archival short
2019: Montana Film Festival, Missoula, MT
"no chimbo"
Video short for song by Amelia Courthouse
2019: Spinster Sounds & Ultrasounds
BLOCKBUSTED
Documentary short
The end of a Blockbuster Video Store is captured, along with a way of watching films
2018: The Eyeslicer, Episode Three, Season One
Series Fest, Denver, CO
Tribeca Film Festival, NY
Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Champs Elysees Film Festival, Paris France
2015: Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
Croydon Film Festival, Croydon, London, UK
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AK
Cinema on the Bayou, Lafayette, LA
Thin Line Film Fetival, Denton, TX
Durango Independent Film Festival, Durango, CO
DocUtah, Dixie State University, St. George, UT
Weyauwega International Film Festival
"Mood Indica"
Video short for song by Wooden Wand
2017: Three Lobed Recordings
"Supermoon (the sounding line)"
Video short for song by Wooden Wand
2012: Fire Records, Stereogum Premiere
"Winter in Kentucky"
video for song by Wooden Wand
2011: Misra Records, Pitchfork Premiere
"The Sound and the Music"
Documentary Short, A musician and a healer meet to discuss muses and sound waves
2010: Thin Line Film Festival, Denton, TX
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
Associate Producer
Walking the River
Documentary Feature
Walking the length of a river to tell the story of the places within its watershed.
2008: WVIZ PBS premiere
WNEO PBS
"Citizen Hauser"
Documentary Short
A laid-off steel worker works to save the last piece of natural shoreline in Cleveland
2006: Cleveland International Film Festival Premiere
WVIZ PBS
WNEO PBS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: School of Visual & Media Arts; School of Journalism
Adjunct Assistant Professor
MART 345 Sound for Film (Autumn 2016 – 2020)
JRNL 391 Documentary Film History (Spring 2020)
MART 450 Topics in Film & Media Studies (Autumn 2016 – 2020)
MART 445 Sound for Digital Media (Spring 2016 – 2020)
MART 455/JRNL 488 Visions of Documentary Film (Spring 2017 – 2020)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: Dept. of Film & Media Arts
Instructor of Record
Film 3500 Production I (Fall 2014)
Film 2100 Intro to Film (Spring 2012 - 2014)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Film 3500 Production I (Fall 2013)
Film 3320 Film History until 1952 (Spring 2013)
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Dept. of English
Adjunct Professor
ENG 0990 Language Fundamentals (Fall 2008 – 2010)
ENG 1001 College Writing (Spring 2008 – 2010)
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Dept. of English
Adjunct Professor
ENG 21011 College Writing (Fall 2007 – 2010)
ENG 21011 College Writing (Spring 2007 – 2010)
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: Dept. of English
Instructor of Record
ENG 101 College Composition (Fall & Spring 2005 – 2007)
FILM/EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Yang, Kevin. “’The Eyesclicer’ Season One Is Now Streaming Online: Amy Seimetz, David Lowery and More Featured In Punk Rock Variety Series.” IndieWire. 24 April. 2018.
Whittaker, Richard. “The Eyeslicer Roadshow Aims to Melt Your Brain.” The Austin Chronicle. 13. Oct. 2017
Simek, Peter. “6 Short Docs to Look For at the Thin Line Festival.” D Magazine. 18 Feb. 2015.
PUBLICATIONS
2020: Production Audio for Non-Fiction Video: A Beginner’s Field Guide
Field guide published as an OER in completion of a Mansfield Library Grant.
2017: “Humorist”, Quarterly West, no. 91, Spring. Web
New Media short about a fallen cult figure.
2005 – 2010: Contributing Writer, Prefix Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
Live music & album reviews
2008: “Hot Day, Cold Night”, Pennsylvania English, Fall.
2007: “Isn’t That What I Needed Never?”, Thesis, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Book-length short story collection based on the life of Clyde Tombaugh
CONFERENCES
2014: “Capturing Nature: Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud and Roy Hofheinz’s Astrodome”
Far West Popular Culture & American Culture Conference, UNLV, NV
GRANTS & AWARDS
2019: Open Educational Resource Grant (OER), University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Funding for the development of a guide to audio for non-fiction filmmaking
2007: Steve Grady Award, University of Maine
Creative Writing, First Place, Fiction
2007: Foreign Language and Area Studies Award (FLAS)
French Language Immersion Fellowship, Université Laval,
Québec, Québec Canada
2006: Cleveland Intl. Film Festival, Best Ohio Short Film, “Citizen Hauser”
ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
2007: English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), President
Organized Visiting Lecture Series
2006: Stolen Island Review, Editor
U. Maine Graduate Literary Journal
2000 – 2004: All College Radio Network (ACRN), DJ & Traffic Director
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2020: Faculty Senator, University of Montana
2015: Guest Lecturer, Film Studies Dept., University of Montana
German Expressionist Film and Documentary Film
2014: Intern, Utah Film Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2013: Volunteer, Slamdance Film Festival: Park City, UT
2011 – 2012
Theater Operations Volunteer, Sundance Film Festival: Park City, UT