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Sep 27, 2021 · When filmmaker Ry Russo-Young was nine years old, her known sperm donor, a gay man, sued her lesbian mothers for parental rights. The case was covered in the media and helped define the rights of same-sex couples today. It was also a defining experience for Ry.
Oct 10, 2021 · But, as chronicled in Ry Russo-Young’s three-part docuseries “Nuclear Family,” which concludes Sunday on HBO, the families had a falling-out: Steel shocked Russo and Young by suing for ...
Sep 22, 2021 · When director Ry Russo-Young was in college, she created a mixed-media performance art piece that cast herself, her two mothers and her sister as Little Red Riding Hoods, and her biological father ...
Ry Russo-Young (born November 16, 1981) is an American independent filmmaker. Her film You Wont Miss Me appeared at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and won a Gotham Award for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You. Her first feature, Orphans, won a special jury prize at South by Southwest in 2007.
Jan 26, 2017 · Ry Russo-Young was doing breathing exercises with me and her star Zoey Deutch before we sat down to chat about “Before I Fall,” her third film in a row to bow at the Sundance Film Festival ...
Jan 31, 2023 · Nuclear Family director Ry Russo-Young knew the family included in the HBO documentary very well — because is was her family.. During her childhood in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Russo-Young was the focus of the first-ever paternity lawsuit in which a sperm donor sued a lesbian couple for visitation rights — and to be recognized legally as the child’s father.
Ry Russo-Young is a bold and innovative writer/director working across genres in both dark and lighter tones. Her work is consistently visually arresting and emotionally potent. Ry's early independent films were associated with the mumblecore genre in part due to her performance alongside Greta Gerwig in the mumblecore classic Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007).
