
Ryan Schwenn
Editing
Biography
Ryan Schwenn is an American editor, producer, and director known for his various short films, including Lights (2018), Smoke Break (2020), and This Isn't a Requiem, It's a Séance (2023). His narrative and documentary work have been selected for film festivals across the United States. He also is a frequent collaborator in the Austin film community on a variety of films, including Bahala Na (2023), Walter (2022), Rocky Road (2023), and more. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he is also a frequent actor, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
Known For

After learning to 'write what you know,' in film school, Half-Filipino and Half-White aspiring filmmaker Andrew Orticio travels back to his father's village in the Philippines to understand his mixed identity.
Bahala Na

After a mysterious figure pulls her through a portal during a boring day at work, a young woman must connect with her past creative life and travel across fading pocket dimensions as she flees to escape a bureaucratic agent dedicated to uniformity and order.
Inner Child

Sheila and Imran haven’t seen each other since college, but when Imran moves back to Austin, an opportunity arises for the pair to get acquainted once more.
So, That Happened

When Kara Te, the girl of the group, is captured by Baxter Eyepatch and his minions, Rook E and Chief Missle must take their finger-guns to the battlefield and rescue their fellow soldier.
Fingergun Fighters

When Liam reunites with his father after a decade apart, a tense courthouse meeting forces him to choose between the life or death of their relationship.
Fatherhood

After a violent attack, former counterfeit criminal Ted Terger awakens in a surreal state—forced to witness his life through every conversation ever held about him behind it back. From whispers of admiration to scathing truths, Ted watches as his mother, ex-wife, son, and granddaughter recount their versions of who he was. As the decades unfold in fragments of personal truth and blunt honesty, Ted must confront the legacy he’s left behind.
Stitched

After a year of dating, a high school couple realize that their college picks are going to force them apart and on opposite ends of the country. Faced with this imminent split, the couple go out to a local light park for their holiday date.
Lights On

Through poetry, a young woman ventures through a trail of memories full of nostalgia and uncertainty.
This Isn't a Requiem, It's a Séance

Henry, a teenage boy, is dropped off at his grandparent's house for what was supposed to be a normal weekend. However, after certain events were discovered Henry finds himself experiencing a weekend that he wasn't expecting.
Dropped Off

In the bathroom at a party, two college-age friends discuss their smoking habits as one has suddenly decided to quit for reasons completely unknown.
Smoke Break

Two college friends going through a rough spot decide to make some money by hosting a bed and breakfast. Conflicts soon arise.
Pit-Stop

When a nervous couple's first date is rained out, the two go out on the town to experience the Christmas lights - and find themselves falling for each other at the same time.
Lights

A girl struggles with the naivety of her newly created friend - an android with some dangerous role models.
Friend.EXE

A disconnected father and son reunite for a weekend camping trip as a final effort to bond before the son goes off to college, which serves as the beginning of a new understanding of the previous absence in each others' lives.
Groundswell

A sheltered Evangelical tween defies her oppressive mother with help from a crush