Ryan Lacen
Directing
Known For

Fantasy and reality collide when a surprisingly diverse group of online video-game addicts struggle to balance the game with personal relationships.
The Guild

Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
Red State

The awkward adventures of a driven actress trying to navigate Hollywood in a wheelchair.
My Gimpy Life

In the hazy mountains of eastern Kentucky, a young woman searches for the missing pieces of a mysterious event that killed her family.
Burning Kentucky

On a business trip to Nashville, Brennan finds himself reunited with the "Girl" who had previously broken his heart. Now, for one weekend in the city's music scene, a past and present romance will be reborn and challenged.
The Dust Storm

A 10-year-old boy yearning to become a mermaid meets a struggling drag queen consumed by grief. Their unexpected bond grows so strong they'll put everything on the line to preserve it.
Mermaid

A powerful anthology of short films, made by and about women, shining a compassionate light on mental health.
The Edge of Her Mind Anthology
About a pair of animal advocates who cross paths in the Los Angeles activism scene. The lovers live by their principles and suffer tragedy as a result.
Tecie

Fighting for her own life and the ones she loves, a Chicana in New Mexico sinks deeper into her addiction while struggling to surface for her daughter.
All the World Is Sleeping

Excited to celebrate their new engagement, Mark and Alexis invite their fathers over for dinner to meet one another only to quickly discover that their dads, Larry and Phillip, have been bitter rivals since childhood.
Old Rivalry

This elevated horror tale follows the emotionally unstable Emmy, who is led to Ireland where a Stranger guides her investigation of a family curse and its sinister origins.
Save Me from Everything
"Doe" explores themes of addiction and survival through the lens of a man living on the streets of Hollywood who, over the course of 24 hours, drifts through a series of encounters that pull him in and out of the cycles of his compulsion.
Doe

A dog groomer in Hollywood aspires to be more than a dog groomer in Hollywood. Michael Pinkney is a man struggling with his lower income lifestyle in the shadow of the film industry. HIs job is degrading, his home is filled with rats, and his mind constantly wanders into a lo-fi dreamscape that mirrors his analog video experiments. Michael's menial routine spirals out of control when he meets Cora, the girl of his dreams.
She's Allergic to Cats

A wild night of drugs and drugged up driving ends in tragedy for three teenage girls that happen to be marionettes.
A Puff Before Dying
Lucy, a young, fabulous, and broke casting assistant holds a phony casting call in an effort to find her dream guy.
Stupid Questions

A dispirited thirty-something gets the chance to work with an Instagram-famous life coach who may have ulterior motives.