Ryan Sidhoo is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia.Nathan Caddell, "Vancouver filmmaker Ryan Sidhoo talks Grizzlies, Raptors and capturing a different kind of Canadian culture with basketball documentary True North". The Georgia Straight, August 13, 2018. He is most noted for directing The Track (2025), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026"The Track". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television., and for producing Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew, a nominee in the same category at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.Joseph Pugh, "Clement Virgo's Brother, sci-fi comedy Viking among leading nominees for Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, February 22, 2023.
Born and raised in Vancouver, he played basketball with various Vancouver youth sports organizations as a teenager before going into filmmaking as a director and producer for Vice. In 2018 he directed the webby winning documentary series True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball,Vish Khanna, "'True North' Doc Chronicles Rise of Toronto Basketball". Exclaim!, May 8, 2018. which was later re-edited into a 90-minute documentary film.Jim Slotek, "True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball - NFB film removes the sugar-coating from 'We The North' boosterism". Original Cin, April 27, 2020.
His 2025 documentary film The Track premiered at the True/False Film Festival.Matthew Carey, "In ‘The Track’ Young Lugers Pursue Olympic Dreams On A Course Pocked With Scars Of War – True/False Film Fest". Deadline Hollywood, March 1, 2025. It was later screened at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, where Sidhoo won the UniCredit Audience Award for Best Documentary Film.Jamie Casemore, "Ryan Sidhoo’s doc The Track wins over Sarajevo audiences". Playback, August 25, 2025.
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