Ryan Kavanagh
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2020 — Present
Writer
Features
Salem turns Halloween into theater — and Violet's love life keeps turning into crime scenes. As the prime suspect in her own horror story, this sharp-tongued ghost-tour guide must survive a haunted season of deadly illusions and decide if she loves terror a little too much.
A struggling musician and absent father wakes up with a mysterious third eye on the back of his head, and as the condition progresses, it begins changing him in ways no one — least of all his estranged wife — can explain.
After a family tragedy nearly tears them apart, Rick and Chrissy sink everything they have left into renovating a rundown lake house with their young daughter in tow — until something familiar starts surfacing in the water and drawing closer to her each time, making it harder and harder to tell innocence from evil.
Pilots
A young tech billionaire has glimpsed the singularity. With the power of time travel, he offers people the impossible: a second chance, a lost loved one, a life rewritten. Each one chosen strategically, each one unaware they're part of a larger design. What he offers is real. His reasons are not. The line between salvation and manipulation grows thinner with every timeline he touches.
"The creepiest show you will ever watch." — A young woman with a violent secret arrives at her grandfather's farm seeking shelter. When an apocalyptic swarm forces them together with a bully, a liar, a parasite, and a doomsday prepper, she discovers that surviving the creatures means learning to trust people she has every reason to fear.
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Loglines, samples, and full materials available on request — ryan@kavpictures.com
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It's hard putting your finger on what you are or what you do. So I stopped trying. I'm a filmmaker, and I define the term plainly.
I am a storyteller and a collaborator — a one-person production unit when the work needs that, a full team lead when it needs that. The gear isn't the point; anyone can learn a camera from its manual. What I bring is the part no manual teaches: knowing what's worth capturing, making sense of chaos, and building a jigsaw puzzle in the field that fits together smoothly in the editing room. Fancy equipment doesn't guarantee a successful project; the eye and the judgment behind it do. Adaptation isn't a line on the resume. It's the job.
Working on something that needs an idea, a writer, a camera, or a director?
Writing samples, pitch decks, and full materials available on request. Open to representation.
ryan@kavpictures.com
Two books. One pink rabbit with a sense of humor nothing can dent. Bunniest Rabbit and Bunniest Rabbit's Merriest Christmas — written for kids, built to warm the grown-ups reading them out loud.
On January 30, 2023, I became Nara's Dad. By Christmas, Bunniest had a book of his own.
Bunniest is based on a real stuffed animal I had as a kid. No matter what life threw at him, he kept the same smile on his face — a kind of oblivious optimism that turns every setback into an adventure and every stranger into a new friend. Now he's the protagonist of two books for his namesake daughter, with an animated short taking shape in After Effects.
The bigger ambition: team up with a real animator and make Bunniest into a proper animated short. If that's you, find me.
This is the Writing in the equation, in its quietest form: stories made for an audience of one. (And the people stubborn enough to scroll this far.)