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Jonny Ruff

Director

About Me:

Website: jonnyruff.com

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My Work and Credits:

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Heavy Weight (2016)

About: When a talented new arrival begins using the local boxing club, Paris, a skilled and confident fighter, is forced to face the truth about his own emotional vulnerability.

One of British Council's #FiveFilms4Freedom: a global LGBT short-film celebration 2017

Official Selection
Mardis Gras Film Festival 2018
Official Selection
The Smalls Film Festival 2017
Official Selection
BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2017
Official Selection
14th London Short Film Festival 2017
WINNER Best of Fest
New Renaissance Film Festival 2016
WINNER Best Actor (Chuku Modu)
New Renaissance Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival
WINNER Best Picture September 2016
Canadian Diversity Film Festival
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Wrenched (2018)
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The Worst Hangover (2023)

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Back To The Future, In Bruge, Force Majeure, Lost In Translation

I cried watching:

Coco

I left the cinema during:

Never

Directors I love:

Martin Scorsese, Paolo Sorrentino, Robert Zemeckis, Andrea Arnold, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ruben Östlund, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Richard Linklater, Taika Waititi, Stephen Daldry

Actors I admire:

Jim Carey, Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore, Denzel Washington

Writers I Respect:

The Coens

My desert island discs:

Pet Sounds, Ok Computer, Demon Days, Hunky Dory, The Epic, Sound of Silver

Books I have given my friends:

Stoner

My death row meal:

Mezze

The best thing I own:

Olympus OM1