Ry Russo-Young’s second feature film YOU WONT MISS ME premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to much critical praise. The film went on to play festivals like SXSW and Torino Film Festival, winning a Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.” The film will be released theatrically on December 10th, 2010 and on DVD by Factory 25.
Her first feature, ORPHANS, received a Jury Prize at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival and was released on DVD by Carnivalesque Films. Russo-Young first received festival exposure with her award winning short film MARION, a three-screen deconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. Awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival among others, MARION has screened at galleries, colleges and film festivals around the world.
Raised in downtown Manhattan, Russo-Young studied acting at HB Studios and Lee Strasberg Institute. She focused on photography at Saint Ann’s School and film at Oberlin College. Russo-Young has received grants from NYSCA and the Lef Foundation, her films have screened at Tribeca Film Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MoMA and the Brooklyn Academy of Music(among others). She is a fellow of the 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Lab for NOBODY WALKS, a film she co-wrote with Lena Dunham. Russo-Young will direct the film in early 2011.
