Ryan White (filmmaker)

Ryan White
White in 2025
Alma materDuke University
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker
Years active2004–present

Ryan White is a documentary producer and director best known for his Netflix documentary film Pamela, a Love Story, Amazon Prime's Good Night Oppy, which won five Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary and Best Director, and his Emmy-nominated Netflix series The Keepers. In 2026, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for Come See Me in the Good Light, about American poet and activist Andrea Gibson.

White's previous films include the HBO movie The Case Against 8, which won Sundance's Directing Award and was nominated for two Emmys, the documentary film Ask Dr. Ruth, and Coded, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award.