Ry Russo-Young’s first feature film ORPHANS won a special jury prize at the 2007 SXSW film festival. The film has screened at numerous film festivals in the US and abroad and will become available on DVD in September.
Russo-Young’s short film, MARION won the jury award for best experimental film at the 2006 SXSW film festival and at the 2005 International Chicago film festival. The film has played at many festivals and galleries and is now available through indiepix.net.
Russo-Young appeared as ROCCO in Joe Swanberg’s HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS which is currently being released by IFC First Take. She produced and directed a series of short films about neighborhoods and landmarks in New York City for the Discovery Channel. In addition, Russo-Young worked on artist Doug Aitken’s large-scale film installation SLEEPWALKERS that appeared on the exterior of the MoMA in New York in January of 2007.
In 2004, Russo-Young was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in an article about growing up with lesbian mothers. She and her family also appeared in OUR HOUSE, an award-winning PBS documentary about gay families.
Russo-Young grew up in downtown Manhattan. She graduated from Saint Ann’s School and Oberlin College where she studied visual arts. She also studied drama at Yale and HB Studios as well as film production at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
She is currently in post-production on her next feature film YOU WON’T MISS ME.
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