Ry Russo-Young

In 2009, Russo-Young's feature You Won’t Miss Me premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and played several other festivals around the world, including SXSW, Turin, Marfa, and Sao Paulo. The film won a Gotham Independent Film Award for “Best Feature Not Coming to a Theater Near You” and was released by Factory 25 on a special-edition DVD in 2011.

Russo-Young’s short film Marion, a three-screen deconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival’s Silver Hugo. Marion has screened at galleries, colleges and film festivals around the world. Russo-Young’s first feature, Orphans, received a Jury Prize at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival and was released on DVD in 2008.

Ry Russo-Young studied acting at HB Studios and Lee Strasberg Institute, and she has appeared in films such as Hannah Takes the Stairs and The Color Wheel. She majored in film at Oberlin College. She has directed commercials and shorts through Bunker, a production company based in Soho.

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