Ryan McKenna is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.T'cha Dunlevy, "Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali". Montreal Gazette, December 3, 2015. He is most noted for his 2017 short documentary film Voices of Kidnapping, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards."“Anthropocene”, “Amazing Race Canada” among Canadian Screen Award nominees". RealScreen, February 8, 2019.
He has also directed the theatrical feature films The First Winter,Malcolm Fraser, "FNC: The First Winter". Cult MTL, October 12, 2012. The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le Cœur de Madame Sabali) and Cranks,Jeremy Shepherd, "Cranks captures the weirdness of Winnipeg in black and white comedy". North Shore News, October 3, 2019. and the short films Open Window, Chinatown, Bon voyage, Honky Tonk Ben, Four-Mile Creek,Ben Waldman, "Generosity and ghost stories". Winnipeg Free Press, October 28, 2023. Controversies, Gerson Workout, I Used to Live There (2023) and Solitudes (2025), premiered at the 78th Locarno Film Festival.
An alumnus of the Winnipeg Film Group,Randall King, "Echoes of Winnipeg: Montreal-based filmmaker returns home to unveil latest feature". Winnipeg Free Press, January 28, 2016. he was cowriter with Matthew Rankin of the "Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto", a Dogme 95-style manifesto of rules for films set in Winnipeg.
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