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Sep 27, 2021 · Ry Russo-Young is a bold and innovative director and writer whose work defies traditional limitations in filmmaking. Ry’s early independent work has been associated with the mumblecore genre, though she has gone on to direct the wide release features Before I Fall (2017) and The Sun is Also a Star (2019) as well as television and commercial projects, including Sweetbitter, Everything Sucks!, and Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger.
Sep 26, 2021 · Ry Russo-Young‘s three-part HBO documentary Nuclear Family was something she “resisted the idea of making” for a while because she “didn’t want to make a me-and-my-problems documentary ...
Jul 30, 2014 · Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young and Kings County Distillery cofounder Colin Spoelman first met during a game of mafia, a parlor game that requires a few members of the group to lie about their identity ...
May 17, 2019 · When director Ry Russo-Young first read the script for The Sun Is Also a Star, like the two main characters, she said she fell in love. The young adult romance about two first-generation ...
May 14, 2019 · When Ry Russo-Young arrived at Sundance in January 2017, the festival regular — she had previously debuted films in both the New Frontiers and Competition sections — returned to the annual ...
Sep 6, 2023 · Ry Russo-Young: The screenplay came first, from my agent, when it was set up at [the production company] Fox 2000 – it was going to be a studio movie – and I read it and I had one meeting, and then didn’t hear back until a year later, when I got another call from my agent, and she said, “The studio’s not making the movie anymore; they’re going to go the indie route.
