Ryan Rakes“I decided to merge my passions for weightlifting and storytelling.”
Ryan Rakes is an award-winning director, editor, and VFX designer, and a long-term vegan strength athlete and trainer. Ironbound, his feature documentary, follows elite plant-based athletes who are rewriting the rules of human performance, a film he has shot and carried entirely on his own across the US, Canada, and Europe for more than a year.












