Biography

Ryan K. Fleck is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known for directing and writing the 2006 film Half Nelson and the 2008 film Sugar. He is known for his collaborations with fellow filmmaker Anna Boden. Ryan was born in Berkeley, California and raised in Berkeley and Oakland, California. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied film.
- IMDb mini biography by: Danny Fleet

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (2006).

Father is an engineer.

Worked at Blockbuster Videos back in 1995.

I'd like to think my film leaves you with the idea that people are becoming more aware of the world," Fleck says. "You have to hope, right?