Ry Russo-Young’s You Wont Miss Me premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and played several other festivals around the world, including SXSW, Turin, Marfa, and Sao Paulo, among others. The film won a Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature Not Coming to a Theater Near You. You Wont Miss Me 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. Her 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 majored in film at Oberlin College. Russo-Young has received grants from New York State Council On the Arts 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. Nobody Walks premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and will be released by Magnolia Pictures in 2012.
