Maureen A. Ryan is a producer based in New York concentrating on feature films and documentaries. She is co-producer of James Marsh's Man on Wire, a documentary about Philippe Petit, the wire-walker who stunned the world when he walked between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. It won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best ¿British Film. Other awards include the Sundance Jury Prize for World Cinema documentary and Audience Award for World Cinema documentary, the Critics Choice Award, the IDA Award, the National Board of Review, the NY Film Critics Award, the PGA Award, and the LA Film Critics Award. Their latest documentary Project NIM premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won Best ¿Director of World Cinema Documentary and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary that year. It screened theatrically in the US and UK and premiered on HBO in the winter of 2012. Ryan is Co-Executive Producer of the television pilot Stanistan for USA Network/Universal Cable Productions. She is also the Re-Creations Producer for Johanna Hamilton's new feature documentary 1971 that premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and is touring the film festival circuit. Her other Re-creations credit is for Alex Gibney's feature documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. The film had a US theatrical run, won the Peabody Award, the BFI Grierson Award at the London Film Festival, and was shortlisted for this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary. It premiered on HBO in February 2013.