Ryan Heller

Ryan Heller

History

Ryan Heller is an American film producer. He is currently the Senior Vice President at Topic Studios, of film and acquisitions. Heller previously worked at Starz, as the Senior Director of Acquisitions and Distribution for the company's feature film department. Heller has produced films such as "The Climb", "The Nowhere Inn", "Bring Your Own Brigade", "The Mauritanian", and "Spencer". Heller has also produced the television series "Love Fraud", "100 Foot Wave", and "Nuclear Family".

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Ryan Heller

Movies

A Real Pain
Executive Producer
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Shortcomings
Executive Producer
When his girlfriend leaves for New York City on a 3-month-long internship, a strongly opinionated Berkeley arthouse movie theater manager begins exploring life as a bachelor.
Theater Camp
Producer
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
Caterpillar
Executive Producer
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but David doesn’t feel beautiful. Frustrated, disillusioned, depressed, he stumbles upon the YouTube channel of a mysterious company offering controversial eye surgeries that claim to transform not just the way patients look but the way they feel. David deeply connects with this company's messaging and realizes his real eyes are holding him back.
God's Time
Executive Producer
Two best friends and recovering addicts embark on a frantic chase through New York City to stop the woman they are both in love with from killing her ex-boyfriend.
Infinity Pool
Executive Producer
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Executive Producer
Delight in the fascinating, intersecting stories of the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor of 50 years, the literary giant Robert Gottlieb, as they race to complete their life’s work.
Nanny
Executive Producer
Senegalese immigrant Aisha lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
Italian Studies
Executive Producer
A mysterious woman wanders the streets of Manhattan in a confused state. Finding herself inexplicably drawn to a group of teenagers she embarks on an adventure with them through the cityscape and into the unknown. As the night progresses, she approaches something intangible on the journey back to herself.
Spencer
Executive Producer
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
The Nowhere Inn
Executive Producer
When St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.
Bring Your Own Brigade
Executive Producer
An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.
Bernstein's Wall
Executive Producer
An enlightening, complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music whose passion and creativity guided him well beyond the concert hall.
The Mauritanian
Executive Producer
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
Pahokee
Executive Producer
In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
The Climb
Executive Producer
Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. A stormy but enduring relationship ensues between Kyle, with limitless patience, and Mike, who only lives his life by sowing discord in that of others, across many years of laughter, heartbreak, and rage.
Floodplain
Executive Producer
A man who must return to his hometown to help prevent catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.
Writers and Lovers
Executive Producer
Casey Peabody is an underemployed, aspiring novelist in 1990’s Boston whose world is rocked by a recent love affair and her mother’s sudden death. Her life becomes more complicated as she then falls for two very different men at the same time.