Meet Ryan Ross

Today we’d like to introduce you to Ryan Ross.

Ryan, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
Hailing from the red clay of Atlanta, Georgia, Ryan “Buck” Ross has been making movies since his teens. With a Hi8 camera and two VCRs cabled together, he and his posse of friends created skateboarding “movies” with some skating, a lot of unnecessary story and a little bit of nudity. Ryan then headed to the University of Colorado at Boulder and took his filmmaking into the mountains. After graduation and some time abroad, he began work at an outdoor documentary company where over the course of five years, he went from “office boy” to being a partner in the business, learning everything on the job. Along the way, he helped start the first-ever Adventure Film School in the country, produced a malaria documentary in Africa, shot IMAX film on Mount Everest, hosted a regional travel TV show, and continued to fall more and more in love with the creative process of filmmaking. Today, armed with his own production company, Buck Ross, and an amazing group of collaborators, Ryan continues to turn ideas into moving images for a broad array of clients in an even wider spectrum of genres and outlets.

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
The road has been smooth enough, but when you’re a single owner of a company, I believe the growth trend can be a bit slower. You don’t have a partner to excel where you might lack and help moves the business along at a greater clip. That and I just felt so lucky to be telling stories for a living that it took me quite a while to refocus at least a portion of my attention onto the growth of the company and scope of the productions we did.

We’d love to hear more about your work.
WE ARE A CREATIVE PRODUCTION COMPANY THAT TAKES PROJECTS FROM NAPKIN SCRIBBLES TO FINISHED FILMS. We specialize in telling stories that move people, be that in the form of documentaries, commercials, or marketing videos. I’m most proud of valuing the story over profit by having the telling of the tale be our NorthStar and not our bottom line.

What is “success” or “successful” for you?
Freedom. That’s always been my definition of success. Freedom to say yes to the right projects and no to the wrong ones. Freedom to prioritize family, friends, and fun overwork when appropriate or needed. Freedom to do what you love. Not everyone is fortunate enough to do that. So I feel so lucky that I get to because life is so short.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.BuckRoss.com
• Instagram: @buckrossproductions

Image Credit:
Personal Pic / credit: Justin Fuller
Office Pics / credit: Evan Grainger

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