Prior to founding Visit Films, Ryan spent a number of years in International Distribution at Focus Features. With Visit Films, he has been responsible for the worldwide sales and development of a number of important American independent and international films that have premiered in festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto from filmmakers as diverse as Harmonie Korine, Werner Herzog, the Duplass Brothers, Valérie Donzelli, Joe Swanberg and David Robert Mitchell.

Ryan speaks on numerous panels each year and has served on a number of film festival juries while logging over 200,000 air miles flown annually. He is as an avid soccer enthusiast and graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.




A native New Yorker who speaks Spanish, Aida holds a BFA in Filmmaking from the Conservatory of Film at Purchase College. Aida then spent several years in the UK where she earned a Masters degree in European Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh and worked as a film programmer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, curating a variety of cinema programs and bespoke live events.

As Director of Acquisitions at Visit Films, Aida travels extensively to a number of festivals and markets, speaking on panels, participating in co-production forums and serving on festival juries around the world.




Lorna-Lee, who is half French and half American, comes from the village of Aups, located in the south of France. Before joining Visit Films, she worked at several international film festivals and promotional organizations including Unifrance/French Film Office in New York, the Festival de Cannes (Marché du Film) and FICCO (Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival). Later moving to Paris, she spent four years working for European telecom operator Orange in their film co-production and acquisition division alongside Frederique Dumas, and was also involved in the Marketing and Artistic department there. Lorna-Lee has a Masters degree in Audiovisual Law and Business from the University of Panthéon Sorbonne.




Andrew comes from the Chicago area where he was born and raised and where he recently completed his studies at Northwestern University, receiving a Bachelors degree in Radio/Television/Film. During his time at Northwestern, Andrew wrote and directed several short films funded by the School of Communication, Studio 22, and playwright Regina Taylor's The State(s) of America multimedia project. In addition to his production work, Andrew was an active member of several student groups including serving as Executive Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Radio/Television/Film Student Association and Programming Chair of Block Cinema. Andrew comes to Visit with experience as Feature Programming intern at the Chicago International Film Festival as well as a member of the 2009 Telluride Film Festival's Student Symposium.




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