Untitled Slick Lawson Project

Ryan Steven Green is a documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles with a passion for uncovering forgotten regional history and niche cultural practices. His work is notable for his ability to transform overlooked curiosities into compelling cinematic... Read More

Ryan Steven Green is a documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles with a passion for uncovering forgotten regional history and niche cultural practices. His work is notable for his ability to transform overlooked curiosities into compelling cinematic experiences that are informative, entertaining, and move the viewer to wonder and greater possibility. Born in Glendale, raised in Altadena, graduated Arcadia High School and the school of Cinematic Arts at USC, Green is married to an Educator from Long Beach and called “Dada” by Margaret (10), Wesley (5), and Odette (3). In addition to his 40+ documentary titles, Green has had in hand in telling stories for some of the world’s most well-known brands. As a result of the success of his feature doc The Hollywood Shorties, in 2019 Green was invited to become a charter member of the Historian Advisory Committee for Little People of America - the national advocacy org for people of short stature. His ongoing work on the Committee is highlighted by his heading production on an Oral History project funded by Ford Foundation. The project currently sits at 76 on-camera interviews and counting and will begin its second three-year funding window in February 2026. In 2018 Green began documenting the disappearing payphones of Los Angeles, beginning with remnants of phones he himself had used as a youth coming up in Altadena. This led to what has been perhaps the most creatively fruitful seven-year span of Green's 25-year career, yielding thousands of film and digital images, four solo photography exhibitions; a literal funeral for the payphone; a series of ten micro-documentaries; a number of lectures; a book of film photography on LA street artist screwyblooms whose work is singularly focused on, and in, the payphone; a flipbook depicting a single disintegration of the payphone composed of many; and, ultimately, the award-winning documentary It’s For You: Ephemeral Art & The Death of the Public Phone which created its own ecosystem of screenings, events, and lectures. Show Less