Ryan Prestipino is an emerging shortlisted screenwriter hailing from the rural locality of Grapetree, Queensland. After completing a Bachelor of Film & TV from Brisbane's QUT, his comedic short screenplay and directorial debut, Vegan, was screened 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. He is also producing a short observational documentary, The Surrenders, which shines a light on surrendered shelter dogs. Ryan was recently shortlisted for the Australian Writers Guild's 'Emerging Writers Awards' for his short drama screenplay Hallow.

Currently, Ryan is adapting an anthology book of wonderfully bizarre court cases into a 6 episode lawyer drama series, Veal Parmigiana (working title).