Michael Ryan

Currently with Sequence Films, Michael Ryan was previously president of Handmade Films International, a British film production and distribution company. Notable films from the studio include Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Time Bandits, Withnail and I, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and partner Denis O’Brien in 1979 to finance Life of Brian. Handmade bought Ryan's foreign sales company, Sequence Films Ltd, which he co-founded with Guy Collins in 2002.