photo by Ed Hancox
Naftali Beane Rutter is the first person in his family to become a filmmaker. His parents are writers and Jungian psychoanalysts. Rutter’s feature film script LA MAREA was selected for the prestigious IFP Emerging Storytellers program. His feature length documentary TODAY, about one day in the life of three families in New Orleans, was called “one of the best movies of the last two years” by Philip Maysles. His short films have played in numerous festivals and museums around the world. YOUR WELCOME won the jury prize at Iron Mule Comedy Festival. WILD ANIMALS premiered at Palm Springs Shortfest.
With his production company Waterbound Pictures, Rutter has created a dramatic range of award-winning commercials, PSAs, music videos, and documentaries, working with clients as diverse as amfAR, Rock the Vote, The Wall Street Journal, and EA Sports. His work has been used to change federal health policy on syringe exchange and bring clean drinking water to rural farm communities in California. His films have been viewed millions of times online, and shown on national television. He is in development on three feature films. PROSPECT EXPRESSWAY, about a man who becomes obsessed with a bridge in Brooklyn, I THINK I LOST YOU, a teen horror comedy about phones that contract a virus and take control of their owners, and BIRDS OF PREY, a documentary about detectives that investigate bird crime.
Drop him a line about anything:
naftali@waterboundpictures.com