
Directing
Ryan Andrew Balas
Born
1985-09-04 (41)
Known for
Directing
Credits
54 titles
Ryan Andrew Balas is an American film actor, writer, director, producer and founder of the New York City based production company "Robel Films". He studied acting at the American Musical and Drama Academy in New York City and Los Angeles, USA.
Known for
NRAfter a breakup, a young woman returns to Denver to explore love, sex, and couch surfing just long enough to know she's got more exploring to do.
Twenties
2024
1.0Annie and Mary were in love in college but ultimately went separate ways. They spend a weekend rekindling when Mary asks Annie to help spread her husband's ashes in the Catskill Mountains.
Love Is a Map
2022
4.7Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Swim Little Fish Swim
2014
7.0A couple deals with chronic illness by opening their marriage. A music writer takes an assignment profiling one of her favorite artists. The mundane poetry of life ensues.
Midwinter
2024
2.1Oft-nude blog star Elenore is winding her way through the power dynamics of a relationship with a powerful business woman when she meets Eugene, a married office drone. The two begin a peculiar pseudo-sexual relationship wrought with role playing and cloaked in a form of semi-anonymity that can only come from digitally-born casual relationships.
NSFW: Not Safe for Work
2014
2.0A family takes a journey into the world of adult entertainment.
Stage Brother
2012
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRHenry's European adventure takes an unexpected twist when he rents a room from Nora, a recently divorced playwright in Copenhagen. Nora and her mischievous pregnant friend Mimi plot a mysterious seduction.
How to Make Love
2024
2.0Margot and David rekindle after their once-loving marriage that fell apart, leaving them forced to live separate lives for years.
In a Good Way
2023
1.0A raw look at the beginning of a love affair and the end of a marriage, through intimate vignettes. How do you get the love you need, without losing the love you have?
Ex Ex Ex
2021
2010s · 11 titles
4.7Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Swim Little Fish Swim
2014
2.0A family takes a journey into the world of adult entertainment.
Stage Brother
2012
NREd and Richard are brothers. They're also con artists. Not incredibly successful ones, but they get by. Ed's the leader. Richard's a bit slow. Their old pal Henry, who used to work with them, gave up the con life to work as a security guard at a bank in rural Yorktown. Ed convinces Henry to get back in the game and help them pull their biggest con yet. Of course, they'll have to wade their way through Yorktown's quirky cast of characters to get what they want, which, as is often the case, seems to be ever-changing.
The Kings of Yorktown
2013
2.7Real life married couple build a narrative surrounding the year they were married, asking "Does your relationship need to change for marriage and can marriage change for your relationship?" Features candid conversation on love, sex and wedding planning.
Ice Saints
2013
2.9An adulterous couple are having an affair in a bombed out brownstone apartment, when they realize they might not be alone. A modern love story with classic horror vibe.
...And Here No Devil Can Hurt You
2011
NRA lonely video editor decides to try online dating while his girlfriend is away. He meets a neurotic newbie to the online romance scene who soon sends his life into a crazy tailspin of bad decisions.
The Sad and Lonely Glow
2015
4.9A lesbian photographer meets a sexy model in an upscale hotel suite. The two women may have a past that is more present than we think.
Elenore Makes Love
2014
3.3A married couple is forced to examine their relationship when they lose the family cat, in this comedic semi mock-doc directed by and starring a real life married couple.
Our House for the Weekend
2017
4.5Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her
2010
4.7Two friends reunite in after ten years and one has a secret waiting to come out.
My Little Friend
2011
NRThis visually-interesting anthology of four short films, presented by the notorious artist KYM, is not intended for the faint of heart.
Blood Dreams
2018
Behind the camera
NRAfter a breakup, a young woman returns to Denver to explore love, sex, and couch surfing just long enough to know she's got more exploring to do.
Twenties
2024
1.0Annie and Mary were in love in college but ultimately went separate ways. They spend a weekend rekindling when Mary asks Annie to help spread her husband's ashes in the Catskill Mountains.
Love Is a Map
2022
1.0Annie and Mary were in love in college but ultimately went separate ways. They spend a weekend rekindling when Mary asks Annie to help spread her husband's ashes in the Catskill Mountains.
Love Is a Map
2022
7.0A couple deals with chronic illness by opening their marriage. A music writer takes an assignment profiling one of her favorite artists. The mundane poetry of life ensues.
Midwinter
2024
7.0A couple deals with chronic illness by opening their marriage. A music writer takes an assignment profiling one of her favorite artists. The mundane poetry of life ensues.
Midwinter
2024
2.1Oft-nude blog star Elenore is winding her way through the power dynamics of a relationship with a powerful business woman when she meets Eugene, a married office drone. The two begin a peculiar pseudo-sexual relationship wrought with role playing and cloaked in a form of semi-anonymity that can only come from digitally-born casual relationships.
NSFW: Not Safe for Work
2014
2.1Oft-nude blog star Elenore is winding her way through the power dynamics of a relationship with a powerful business woman when she meets Eugene, a married office drone. The two begin a peculiar pseudo-sexual relationship wrought with role playing and cloaked in a form of semi-anonymity that can only come from digitally-born casual relationships.
NSFW: Not Safe for Work
2014
2.0A family takes a journey into the world of adult entertainment.
Stage Brother
2012
2.0A family takes a journey into the world of adult entertainment.
Stage Brother
2012
NRHenry's European adventure takes an unexpected twist when he rents a room from Nora, a recently divorced playwright in Copenhagen. Nora and her mischievous pregnant friend Mimi plot a mysterious seduction.
How to Make Love
2024
NRHenry's European adventure takes an unexpected twist when he rents a room from Nora, a recently divorced playwright in Copenhagen. Nora and her mischievous pregnant friend Mimi plot a mysterious seduction.
How to Make Love
2024
NREd and Richard are brothers. They're also con artists. Not incredibly successful ones, but they get by. Ed's the leader. Richard's a bit slow. Their old pal Henry, who used to work with them, gave up the con life to work as a security guard at a bank in rural Yorktown. Ed convinces Henry to get back in the game and help them pull their biggest con yet. Of course, they'll have to wade their way through Yorktown's quirky cast of characters to get what they want, which, as is often the case, seems to be ever-changing.
The Kings of Yorktown
2013
3.2A lesbian wanna-be model falls dangerously in love with an up and coming painter. The relationship goes too far too fast and the lines between art and sex get blurred.
Louise and Her Lover
2011
3.2A lesbian wanna-be model falls dangerously in love with an up and coming painter. The relationship goes too far too fast and the lines between art and sex get blurred.
Louise and Her Lover
2011
NRA sick man living on the fringes of society decides to go to New York City for a controversial surgical procedure. In his wake, he leaves a terrifying social media trail, proving no one is more dangerous than the average donor.
Donor
2021
2.7Real life married couple build a narrative surrounding the year they were married, asking "Does your relationship need to change for marriage and can marriage change for your relationship?" Features candid conversation on love, sex and wedding planning.
Ice Saints
2013
2.7Real life married couple build a narrative surrounding the year they were married, asking "Does your relationship need to change for marriage and can marriage change for your relationship?" Features candid conversation on love, sex and wedding planning.
Ice Saints
2013
2.7Real life married couple build a narrative surrounding the year they were married, asking "Does your relationship need to change for marriage and can marriage change for your relationship?" Features candid conversation on love, sex and wedding planning.
Ice Saints
2013
NRWhen a fantasy threesome spirals out of control, a couple is faced with an erotic nightmare. They boldly face their raw romance over and over in a dream-like purgatory.
A House in Fragments
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2.9An adulterous couple are having an affair in a bombed out brownstone apartment, when they realize they might not be alone. A modern love story with classic horror vibe.
...And Here No Devil Can Hurt You
2011
NRA biracial, Indianapolis-based artist struggles to understand how his life and work have been affected by his estranged, imprisoned father.
Good Monsters
2017
NRA lonely video editor decides to try online dating while his girlfriend is away. He meets a neurotic newbie to the online romance scene who soon sends his life into a crazy tailspin of bad decisions.
The Sad and Lonely Glow
2015
NRA lonely video editor decides to try online dating while his girlfriend is away. He meets a neurotic newbie to the online romance scene who soon sends his life into a crazy tailspin of bad decisions.
The Sad and Lonely Glow
2015
4.2Love Me Anyway is a sun soaked drama about a filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.
Love Me Anyway
2014
4.2Love Me Anyway is a sun soaked drama about a filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.
Love Me Anyway
2014
NRMusician, William Raynovich and Sculptor, Rebecca Reineke, invented a 10-foot tall percussion instrument at Art Farm in Nebraska. This film is a portrait of that instrument and the experimental compositions they perform with it.
The Instrument in Six Movements
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NRSee how one man's journey into New York's history started a movement. Meet a group of craft distillers, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians, and policymakers as they band together to celebrate the past, present, and future of Rye Whiskey and what it means to the people of the state that made it famous.
Fire, Water & Grain: The Story of Empire Rye
2023
2.0Margot and David rekindle after their once-loving marriage that fell apart, leaving them forced to live separate lives for years.
In a Good Way
2023
4.9A lesbian photographer meets a sexy model in an upscale hotel suite. The two women may have a past that is more present than we think.
Elenore Makes Love
2014
4.9A lesbian photographer meets a sexy model in an upscale hotel suite. The two women may have a past that is more present than we think.
Elenore Makes Love
2014
3.3A married couple is forced to examine their relationship when they lose the family cat, in this comedic semi mock-doc directed by and starring a real life married couple.
Our House for the Weekend
2017
4.5Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her
2010
4.5Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her
2010
NRAn ASMR food experience that goes beyond cinema and deep into your brain. This is something you would watch first thing in the morning to get inspiration or on the wall of a famous art museum or right before bed, as you dream about the meal to come.
ASMR Breakfast
2019
1.0A raw look at the beginning of a love affair and the end of a marriage, through intimate vignettes. How do you get the love you need, without losing the love you have?
Ex Ex Ex
2021
1.0A raw look at the beginning of a love affair and the end of a marriage, through intimate vignettes. How do you get the love you need, without losing the love you have?
Ex Ex Ex
2021
2.0Three women living together during a war time crisis, defy standard gender roles to try and form a nuclear family, with mixed results.
Hymns
2016
2.0Three women living together during a war time crisis, defy standard gender roles to try and form a nuclear family, with mixed results.
Hymns
2016
2.0Three women living together during a war time crisis, defy standard gender roles to try and form a nuclear family, with mixed results.
Hymns
2016
4.7Two friends reunite in after ten years and one has a secret waiting to come out.
My Little Friend
2011
