Bryn Mooser
Credits: CEO and Co-Founder, ASTERIA
BRYN MOOSER is a twice Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker, humanitarian, and the founder and CEO of Asteria Film Co., XTR and DOCUMENTARY+. In 2024 Mooser founded Asteria, an artist-led generative AI film and animation studio, powered by the first clean and ethical AI model. Asteria oversees XTR, the documentary studio Mooserfounded in 2019 which also houses the streaming platform and FAST channel, DOCUMENTARY+. Previously, Mooser co-founded RYOT, a media company specializing in documentary film and Virtual/Augmented Reality. Over his career he has produced more than 200 linear and immersive films garnering multiple Emmy Awards, two Oscar nominations, and both a Peabody and Cannes Lions Award. In 2016, Mooser sold RYOT to Verizon, becoming a SVP and helping create the roadmap for immersive media, documentary films and branded content for AOL, Yahoo and Verizon. As a humanitarian, 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. For his charitable work, he received the prestigious Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, and Esquire Magazine named him as one of their Americans of the Year.