Ryan Findley

Movies

The Way of the Psychonaut
Volunteer / Nazi Guard / Dangerous Date
The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives. One of those transformed by Stan is filmmaker Susan Hess Logeais. The documentary utilizes Susan’s personal existential crisis as a gateway to Grof’s impact, from the micro to the macro.
The Dark Divide
Jesse
A shy butterfly expert embarks on a dangerous, life-changing trek through one of America’s greatest unprotected wildlands at the urging of his dying wife.
First Cow
Trapper Dame
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.
Summer Lightning
Tommy Olson
For a father and son, a baseball game isn’t the most important battle of the weekend.
Changing Time
A NASA physicist who feels his life was derailed in 1996 when his sister was killed in a high school shooting finds a way to go back in time in an attempt to alter history. An ultra-low budget film shot over a period of 10 years at George Fox University.
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers
First Lieutenant
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.