Joshua
RyanDietz.
Los Angeles · Writer · Director · WGA West
Los Angeles · Writer · Director · WGA West
"This might be one of the weirdest, most delightfully unhinged films I've seen in years, if not ever." — Russ Pirozek, BitPix News
A dysfunctional family comes together to kick their brother out of the family through a new legal process known as familial emancipation, only to begin arguing about who their father's favorite child is. As secrets are revealed, things take a turn for the tragic and violent.
HollyShorts · Cleveland International · Odense International · Filmquest · and more. Nominated: Best Comedy Short, Best Screenplay, Best Ensemble Cast. Online premiere via Omeleto — 30k+ views.
Watch ↗
Directed by Scott Cooper, starring Christian Bale. A detective enlists the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe to solve a series of murders near West Point in 1830.
Directed by David Ayer, starring Shia LaBeouf. A crime enforcer collecting for a Los Angeles crime lord finds his world upended when a rival threatens everything he holds dear.
A pen-pal experience that blurred the line between fiction and reality, connecting participants with anonymous correspondents in an ongoing epistolary narrative.
Read more ↗An at-home séance experience that invites participants into an intimate ritual with the unknown.
Watch ↗Commander at Home is one of the fastest growing Magic: The Gathering YouTube series with nearly 300k subscribers and 100,000,000 views, bringing celebrity guests together to play with hosts Brian Kibler and Olivia Gobert-Hicks.
Watch ↗Joshua Ryan Dietz is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and former development executive whose work explores obsession, duality, and the often-disorienting edges of human behavior. A storyteller across film, theatre, and digital media, Dietz brings a uniquely psychological lens to genre narratives, often blurring the line between bleak realism and comedic absurdity.
After nearly a decade in development, where he shepherded projects and wrote nearly thirty screenplays, Dietz shifted his focus to directing his own work. He made his producing debut on David Ayer's The Tax Collector and later served as co-executive producer on Scott Cooper's The Pale Blue Eye starring Christian Bale. His creative voice emerged through his writing and immersive storytelling, including the theatre-bending experiences iConfidant and One Day Die, praised by artists such as Neil Patrick Harris and Joe Russo.
His directorial debut short film, Supper, blends dark familial tension with allegorical undercurrents in a darkly comedic tragedy. Supper has played many Oscar Qualifying festivals, including the prestigious HollyShorts, the Cleveland International Film Festival, and several more. It received nominations for Best Screenplay, Best Comedy Short, and Best Ensemble Cast. It was released online with the highly competitive Omeleto where it received over 30k views.
Dietz is a Writers Guild of America member and currently putting together his feature debut. His commercial work has partnered him with big brands such as Sega, Marvel, Mozilla Firefox, Wizards of the Coast, and many more.
When not writing, Dietz is utilizing his nerdy passion for Magic: The Gathering by producing the highly successful show Commander at Home, or hanging with his wife and cat, or doom scrolling on Zillow.
Founded in 2024, Tammie's Son is the production company with which Dietz will write, direct, and produce projects. The company is named after his late mother who taught him to never stop dreaming. She was a total badass and he's proud to be Tammie's Son.