Ryan White is the director of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Pamela, a love story, an intimate
portrait following the trajectory of Pamela Anderson’s life and career. White also directed Amazon’s Good Night Oppy, the extraordinary fifteen-year journey of the Mars rover Opportunity and the surprising bond that formed between the robot and a team of scientists and engineers at NASA. Good Night Oppy won five Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary & Best Director and was recently nominated for seven Emmys. In 2020, he directed Visible: Out on Television, the first documentary series on Apple TV+. The five-part series explores the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of television. In addition, White is the director of Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), a documentary portrait that chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. White also directed The Keepers, an Emmy-nominated seven-part Netflix documentary series that investigates the unsolved murder of a young nun in Baltimore and the horrific secrets and pain that linger nearly five decades after her death. White directed The Case Against 8 (HBO), a behind-the-scenes look at the five-year battle to overturn Proposition 8, which had outlawed same sex marriage in California. The film won the Directing Award at Sundance and was nominated for two Emmys. White graduated from Duke University with a focus on Documentary Studies.
