Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing is a Los Angeles-based freelance film critic, a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award Committee. He has written for Reverse Shot, Film Comment, Variety, Criterion, Sight and Sound, Slant Magazine, the British Film Institute, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook, The Film Stage, Seattle Screen Scene, Hyperallergic, Screen Slate, the International Documentary Association, the Metrograph Journal, and In Review Online. He also serves as a Q&A moderator, having conducted conversations with Tsai Ming-liang, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, James Benning, Payal Kapadia, Wang Bing, and Matías Piñeiro.

Swen is a Juris Doctor and Master of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He hosts and produces the podcast Catalyst and Witness and co-hosts and produces the podcast 24 hours don’t make an ideology.

Contact: swenryan@gmail.com