R. Stephenson Price

Ryan Stephenson Price was born and raised in Timmins Ontario before pursuing a degree in Journalism/Film at Ottawa's Carleton University - where his childhood love and obsession with film transcended simply memorizing and quoting his favourites (with bad impersonations), and into writing lengthy essays about the evolution of CGI in cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, Batman as quintessential Hero Quest archetype, and why Blade Runner is a twisted (and brilliant!) perversion of the American Dream. In addition to his independently-run Stratasfear Productions, Price has been co-host/producer of Toronto-based multimedia music series The Indie Machine since 2010, and has held various positions across the production spectrum in print, radio, video, and web. Price's four years of collaboration with Toronto rock band Paint culminated in 2016 with the 80-minute concert film (disPLAY) (2016), following the hour-long black-and-white Lynchian experimental sci-fi film 11:11 (2015) and heist-gone-wrong short Boomerang (2013). His two web series - comedy Gratuitous Behaviour (2016), and hockey crime drama Unbury The Biscuit (2016) - are both available now on YouTube. As of 2017, Price is developing a series of proof-of-concept short films, including: crime drama Misinformed (2017), sci-fi thriller Tempor Tempor, neo-noir detective thriller Serialized, and the first installment of his bio-punk sci-fi saga: Problem Solving 101.