Ryan Gomes

Ryan Gomes is a Cape Verdean/American director born in Maine and raised in Rhode Island. He is passionate about education, the arts and about storytelling, so much that he founded the film-making non profit; Reel Artistry. Since 2017 years this organization has taught over 550 young people film-making and photography. Ryan attended high school at Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the performing and visual arts in Pawtucket Rhode Island where he majored in guitar, both jazz and classical. He continued his studies at the University of Rhode Island where he studied jazz guitar before changing his major to film and graduating with a degree in film. Ryan is also a veteran of the Rhode Island Army National Guard, ending his service as an Airframe Mechanic in 2019.