
Ryan Andrew Balas
Directing
Biography
Ryan Andrew Balas is an American film actor, writer, director, producer and founder of the New York City based production company "Robel Films". He studied acting at the American Musical and Drama Academy in New York City and Los Angeles, USA.
Known For

See how one man's journey into New York's history started a movement. Meet a group of craft distillers, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians, and policymakers as they band together to celebrate the past, present, and future of Rye Whiskey and what it means to the people of the state that made it famous.
Fire, Water & Grain: The Story of Empire Rye

"Enthusiastic Sinners" is the saga of a married cop, a small town widow and their 24 hour lust story that turns into a love story.
Enthusiastic Sinners

Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Swim Little Fish Swim

A young man struggles with the boundaries of friendship when he finds himself in an intimate situation
Boys Like You

An old flame is reignited and a new desire is awaken when Hollywood Actress Adina J. Spencer returns back to New York. Soon she is forced to face her sexual past, confront her present identity, and admit her true love.
What It Was

In front of the hot lights of a porn set and behind the closed doors of a burlesque studio, four young men leave boyhood behind and end up shedding more than just their clothes and inhibitions.
Daddy's Boy

Jody, a lonely teenage girl, joins forces with Hannah, a disgraced track coach, and together they spend a summer training for the Pinnacle Games, the biggest track-and-field competition on the East Coast.
Strider

A couple deals with chronic illness by opening their marriage. A music writer takes an assignment profiling one of her favorite artists. The mundane poetry of life ensues.
Midwinter

A family takes a journey into the world of adult entertainment.
Stage Brother

As she struggles to connect with her estranged homophobic brother and admit her true feelings for her gay best friend, artist Lea Costa sets out to unite them all as the family she never had.
When I'm with You

Love Me Anyway is a sun soaked drama about a filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.
Love Me Anyway

Three women living together during a war time crisis, defy standard gender roles to try and form a nuclear family, with mixed results.
Hymns

Jebadiah Sminch made a vow that if he wasn't married by the time he turned 23, he would kill himself when he was 25. He met Carter past the deadline and his 25th birthday is at the end of the week.
Carter

Annie and Mary were in love in college but ultimately went separate ways. They spend a weekend rekindling when Mary asks Annie to help spread her husband's ashes in the Catskill Mountains.
Love Is a Map

A married couple is forced to examine their relationship when they lose the family cat, in this comedic semi mock-doc directed by and starring a real life married couple.
Our House for the Weekend

Margot and David rekindle after their once-loving marriage that fell apart, leaving them forced to live separate lives for years.
In a Good Way

Harold, a middle-aged Mexican theatre acting coach, travels to New York and finds himself obsessing over a precocious teenage boy named Felix, who he believes is the reincarnation of his first childhood love.
A Boy Like That

A lesbian photographer meets a sexy model in an upscale hotel suite. The two women may have a past that is more present than we think.
Elenore Makes Love

Two friends reunite in after ten years and one has a secret waiting to come out.
My Little Friend

Real life married couple build a narrative surrounding the year they were married, asking "Does your relationship need to change for marriage and can marriage change for your relationship?" Features candid conversation on love, sex and wedding planning.