Ryan Harper (Director/Producer-Partner in Your Half Pictures) After graduating with a degree from San Jose State University and continued post-graduate studies in film at UCLA, Ryan Harper began his career working in production-management with both Propaganda Films and Michael Bay Films. He subsequently worked for director’s Spike Lee’s Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks as a location manager. Ready to make the leap into directing, Harper worked on the 2001 PBS special “World Festival of Sacred Music” inspired by the writings of his holiness, the Dalai Lama. This period also found Ryan helming speculative commercials for clients as diverse as Heinz, Coca-Cola, Motorola and Levi’s Jeans. Beginning in 1999, Harper has served as a producer/partner for the independent production company, Your Half Pictures, along with Rusty Gray and Josh R. Jaggars. Under the Your Half banner, Harper directed and produced 30 Miles, an intimate character-drama staring Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs (“Welcome Back Kotter,” “The Jacksons: An American Dream”). Acclaimed for its groundbreaking use of High Definition technology, 30 Miles found favor on the festival circuit, receiving nominations from the HD-Fest Film Festival for Best Picture and Best Director (sponsored by MovieMaker Magazine) in addition to winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. As a producer, Harper has also executive-produced the short film Descent from critically acclaimed filmmaker Jay Holben and is now executive-producing Holben’s feature debut, the documentary CamGirls. Harper also produced the short film The Pick-Up. Harper is currently involved with the feature-film Eddie Would Go, a biography of late, famed Hawaiian big-wave surfer Eddie Aikau. Based on the book by Stuart Holmes Coleman, Eddie Would Go represents years of work by Harper and his producing partners as the largest undertaking yet of Your Half Pictures. Harper recently producing the independent film, Steel City from writer-director Brian Jun. Return.