Ryan Lobo (1973), a photographer, producer, director and videographer who has been working professionally in the documentary film business for the last 5 years, developing, producing and shooting. His films have aired on National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Channel International, Animal Planet, The Oprah Winfrey Show and PBS as well as other networks. In 2001, Ryan co-founded Mad Monitor Productions, a joint Indian-American production company based in Bangalore, India and Washington DC, USA. As a filmmaker and photographer Ryan has traveled the globe, exploring a wide variety of topics including cultural and socio-political issues, wildlife, science, archaeology, adventure, natural phenomena, travel and entertainment… and worked on subjects as diverse as Japanese tattoo artists, American prisons in Minnesota, child marriage…

Ryan is co-founder of Opus CDM, an advertising, marketing and market research agency based in Bangalore. He is the winner of the national “advertising” competition for Levi-Strauss, May 1995, and has worked as a still photographer for numerous films for NGT, magazines, various non-governmental organizations, corporations and fund raising efforts.