Ryan Sidhoo

Ryan Sidhoo is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] He is most noted as producer of Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[2]

Born and raised in Vancouver, he played basketball with various Vancouver youth sports organizations as a teenager before going into filmmaking as a director and producer for Vice.[1] In 2018 he directed the webby winning documentary series True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball,[3] which was later re-edited into a 90-minute documentary film.[4]

His 2025 documentary film The Track premiered at the True/False Film Festival.[5] It was later screened at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, where Sidhoo won the UniCredit Audience Award for Best Documentary Film.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Nathan Caddell, "Vancouver filmmaker Ryan Sidhoo talks Grizzlies, Raptors and capturing a different kind of Canadian culture with basketball documentary True North". The Georgia Straight, August 13, 2018.
  2. ^ Joseph Pugh, "Clement Virgo's Brother, sci-fi comedy Viking among leading nominees for Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, February 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Vish Khanna, "'True North' Doc Chronicles Rise of Toronto Basketball". Exclaim!, May 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Jim Slotek, "True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball - NFB film removes the sugar-coating from 'We The North' boosterism". Original Cin, April 27, 2020.
  5. ^ Matthew Carey, "In ‘The Track’ Young Lugers Pursue Olympic Dreams On A Course Pocked With Scars Of War – True/False Film Fest". Deadline Hollywood, March 1, 2025.
  6. ^ Jamie Casemore, "Ryan Sidhoo’s doc The Track wins over Sarajevo audiences". Playback, August 25, 2025.
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