Ryan Koo

Ryan Koo is the founder and CEO of No Film School. He wrote the first 1,000 posts himself while trying to break into the film industry.

His directorial debut AMATEUR is a 2018 Netflix Original Film starring Michael Rainey Jr. and Josh Charles. Vulture called the coming-of-age basketball drama “a scrupulously researched defense of player’s rights — that is, the rights of the working class.”

Koo’s screenplay for AMATEUR was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and received Sundance’s first Asian American Fellowship, as well as additional support from Tribeca, The Gotham, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

His Kickstarter campaign for AMATEUR was the most successful narrative film on Kickstarter at the time, and his short version of AMATEUR won multiple film festival awards and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.

For his web series THE WEST SIDE, Koo won the Webby Award for Best Drama Series and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film.

You can also find Ryan Koo on Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and IMDb.