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Ryan L.
Panjim, Goa, India
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Ryan Lobo is an award winning filmmaker and photographer. In 2009 Ryan spoke at the TED conference about storytelling with photography to a standing ovation. Ryan owns Mad Monitor Productions, a film and photo Production Company based in Bangalore, India. He has worked as a producer and cinematographer for more than 80 film projects for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, OWN and other networks and clients, including shooting undercover for the Emmy-nominated film Child Slaves of India, producing several short films for the Oprah show and several film projects in conflict zones like Iraq, Liberia and Afghanistan. Ryan Lobo has co-produced the critically acclaimed 2011 Sundance film festival award winning film, “The Redemption of General Butt naked”, the story of General Butt Naked, a former Liberian warlord who terrorized Liberia with his child soldiers. The film won for best cinematography at the Sundance film festival in 2011 and was nominated for best feature length documentary film. Ryan is the author of the work of literary fiction “Mr. Iyer Goes to War” from Bloomsbury UK. As a writer Ryan has produced the work “War and Forgiveness” from his travels in Iraq, Afghanistan and Liberia. His photographs from American prisons have been used in the book “Torture and the War on Terror” by late polish philosopher Tzevatan Todorov. His photographs and writing have been featured in numerous magazines like GEO, Tehelka, Bidoun, The Caravan, National Geographic, the Boston review, Chimurenga, Onzeweruld, the Wall Street Journal and others. Ryan’s limited edition photographs have been exhibited all over the world and are present in many collections. Ryan Lobo is the founder trustee of “The Sunbird Trust” which works towards ensuring education for children in insurgency affected areas of North Eastern India with the intention of bringing peace to conflict areas via education.
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5.0 The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi - aka General Butt Naked - a brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14-year civil war. Today, the General has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as Evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi. This portrait takes viewers on Joshua's crusade to redeem his past, as he confronts his victims and attempts to rehabilitate the former child soldiers who once fought for him. Whatever you make of him -- liar or madman, charlatan or genuine repentant -- the film challenges viewers to ask important questions about both the power and the limits of forgiveness, amid a nation's search for healing and justice.
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Produced for Canda Foundation
The Rose Farmers
A short form documentary on Rose Farmers in rural Tamil Nadu
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The Fish Farmer
A short form documentary on the life of a rural woman entrepreneur in Tamil Nadu, India
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A Million Mutinies
Our stories and performances reveal us in ways words might not be able to. India is going though what is probably the largest demographic shift in the history of humanity. Millions move from villages to cities carrying within their selves, their mythologies, histories and ways of looking. An increase in earning and wealth has created new confidences in peoples once poor, repressed or unsure. Particularities long suppressed due to poverty, foreign rule or suffering have begun to flow again. Identities, religious and cultural, once overwhelmed and displaced are being freed and what cannot be written or spoken about is expressed through various forms of storytelling. As the saying goes, “History flows in our blood and is not written in our books”. For many in once “remote” areas of India, regional talent shows and the Internet have become stages for the sharing of performance and stories. These are photographs of a semi rural troupe of performers at a “talent show” in a small Indian city, the Bir Khalsa group. Captioned from Sikh mythology and in the words of the performers themselves. "Independence had come to India like a kind of revolution. Now there were many revolutions within that revolution. . . . All over India scores of particularities that had been frozen by foreign rule, or by poverty or lack of opportunity or abjectness had begun to flow again." - Sir V.S. Naipaul "India: A Million Mutinies Now" I noticed the group on youtube, tracked them down and after they permitted me to do so, I photographed the Bir Khalsa group in Lucknow in 2013 while they performed at several venues on makeshift stages in open areas in the city. Tens of thousands of people attended each event.
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Lives of a Tree
A photographic study of a single rain tree and all the macro life it contains - for GEO Magazine.
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