Movies: Jesse Ruuttila

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail....

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex att...

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines betwe...

What do a young graffiti artist, a middle-aged widow, a teenage poet, a vampire, and two lovers stuck in separate timelines have in common? Though their paths don't always cross, their lives unfold in Brooklyn's vibrantly multicultural neighborhood o...

Two old friends try to keep an open mind while attending a seniors-only singles retreat in the Poconos....

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture....

In the hazy mountains of eastern Kentucky, a young woman searches for the missing pieces of a mysterious event that killed her family....

A woman gets stuck in a Red Lobster commercial, in Robin Comisar’s horror-comedy that won Best Short at the Overlook Film Festival....

A trans cop with the New York City Police Department goes undercover to make a drug bust....

A game show where Jo Firestone sets up a cookie tasting in a parking lot to try to make friends. Contestants must ultimately decide between a friendship and $50 cash....

A documentary crew planned to film the 17th Annual Staring Contest, but things took an unexpected turn....

A millennial screenwriter searching for inspiration finds his power during an existential crisis....