Ryan Prestipino is an emerging shortlisted screenwriter hailing from the rural locality of Grapetree, Queensland. After completing a Bachelor of Film & TV at Brisbane's QUT, he screened his comedic short screenplay and directorial debut, Vegan, at the Adelaide Vegan Film Festival. Ryan's true-crime documentary, Mama’s Boy, was featured in Melbourne’s Women in Film Festival.

Moving to Norway in 2019 to help train sled dogs in the Arctic Circle, Ryan prevented frostbite by writing several science-fiction spec scripts. Throughout COVID, Ryan wrote and developed Keys, an original 1-hour mystery-adventure pilot, which went to option.

After moving to Melbourne in 2022, Ryan’s versatile writing style earned him the opportunity to develop a historical drama series based on an iconic Australian legacy alongside producers in Sydney, Brisbane, and the US. Ryan was shortlisted in 2024 for the Australian Writers Guild's 'Emerging Writers Awards' for his short drama screenplay, Hallow. In 2026, Ryan was shortlisted for the AWG’s John Hinde Award for his television screenplay The Parenthood Test.

Currently, Ryan is adapting the popular memoir Trials and Tribulations in Community Law, an anthology of wonderfully bizarre court cases, into an 8-episode lawyer drama series, Walk-Ups.
He is also working alongside producers in Sydney, Brisbane, and the US to bring the story of the 1891 Queensland shearer’s strikes to life in his series Waltzing Matilda.