Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tianxing 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, a Juris Doctor candidate and Master of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, and holds an undergraduate degree in cinema and media studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He hosts and produces the podcast Catalyst and Witness and co-hosts the podcast 24 hours don’t make an ideology, and has written for Reverse Shot, Criterion, Film Comment, Slant Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Film Stage, Seattle Screen Scene, In Review Online, MUBI Notebook, and the BFI.

Contact: swenryan@gmail.com