Ryland Walker Knight is a writer and filmmaker. He is a partner at Capsaicinco and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

In 2024, Ryland was selected as a Sundance Institute Native Lab Fellow. In 2025, he participated in NYU Tisch’s Empowering Indigenous Voices: An Intensive Film Directing Workshop. In 2026, he was invited to join the Rideback Rise accelerator as a Circle Fellow.

Ryland lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he goes to the movies as often as possible.