True Stories About Surprising People
Featured Project
The Not-Dying Girl
Co-written and co-produced by Ruyak Media with Dos Eckes Productions
Lauren McCullough was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer just weeks after graduating from high school. This documentary traces Lauren’s powerful battle to survive, her efforts to promote awareness and funding for pediatric cancer research and her ‘bucket list’ of accomplishments which included the wedding of her dreams. Inspired by Lauren’s remarkable blog, this program is titled, The Not-Dying Girl.
In Development
Photo: Sian Kennedy
The Dave Sanders Story
Dave Sanders was devastated by his wife’s death. Cathy Sanders died of cancer just eighteen months after the birth of their third child. In the midst of Dave’s blur of grief, single-parenting and the struggle to maintain a career, came a strange and unexpected request. Would he help a group of people whose money had been stolen in a Ponzi scheme? This is the beginning of The Dave Sanders Story.
Related Work
Beth and Alex in the Studio
Insight with Beth Ruyak on Capital Public Radio
Insight with Beth Ruyak is a live news and entertainment program from Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, California. Beth Ruyak has hosted the hour-long, weekday show since 2012. Among the program’s compelling guests was iconic rock climber Alex Honnold. Part of his conversation with Beth in October, 2016 landed in the National Geographic documentary Free Solo.