“My goal is to start a (film)business in this area, something that can employ people,” he said. “It will be something the people can point to and kids can see it, saying ‘I can do that,’ instead of doing things that are glaring to the environment.”
He dreams of making major films — the Spike Lee of the East Bay.
“It comes from the intense poverty that we experience as a city,” he said of his localfocus, “and the conditions my friends were living in. It’s tough to succeed.
“The reason I’m here now, standing proud, are my mom and dad. Take them away and my story could be one you hear all the time.”
Ryan and his father were interviewed last week at Century Theaters at Richmond’s Hilltop Mall, where they hope Ryan’s films will be shown one day.
and I wanted to see more of them as the film progressed. 
