Bryn Mooser

Bryn Mooser (born September 20, 1979, in Los Angeles) is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. In 2012, Mooser co-founded RYOT, a media company specializing in documentary film, virtual/augmented reality and branded content.

Early life and education Mooser grew up in Bar Harbor, Maine, and went to MDI High School. He studied film at the Bennington College before joining the Peace Corps.

Following the earthquake in Nepal, Mooser got involved in virtual reality filmmaking after shooting a scene at the rubble of Kathmandu. His work expanded to include 360 video and virtual reality and aimed to provide an immersive experience whereby one could interact with the visual content and take actions, such as donating for relief operations via Apple Pay.

Mooser helped launch virtual reality news reporting with the Associated Press in 2015. He also helped bring augmented reality to Time magazine in 2018.

In 2019, Mooser launched XTR, a company focused on non-fiction film and television studio based in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

In 2016, Mooser was a Peabody Award finalist for his work in "The Gardeners of Eden". Apart from these, he has received the Kenneth Cole Courageous Class award and the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award in 2016. Mooser won an Emmy award for the same in "Outstanding short documentary" category.

His film Lifeboat also received a Documentary Short Subject nomination in the 2019 Oscars.

Mooser's film On Her Shoulders, for which he served as one of the executive producers, was one of the winners of the 2019 DuPont-Columbia Awards. He was brought in as a member of the Motion Picture Academy in July 2019, as part of their efforts of bringing in new members every year.

Personal life Mooser spent three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa and was the country director for Artists for Peace and Justice in Haiti. While in Haiti he helped build the nation's largest cholera center and a high school in Port-au-Prince that today educates nearly 3,000 Haitian youth per year. For his charitable work, Mooser was made a recipient of the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award in 2016, and Esquire magazine named him as one of their Americans of the Year.