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A true achiever, Ray Tintori had his first short film show at Sundance before he could legally enjoy toasting to his success! While still a Film Major at Wesleyan University, Tintori's first short (which he made for a required production class) played at the Slamdance Film Festival. The film, JETTISON YOUR LOVED ONES, is featured on the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series Vol. 1 compilation, distributed through IndiePixFilms.com. The black and white short, shot in a mere two days, is original to the point of being nearly indescribable, with the plot summarized on the Slamdance website as: " A man addicted to faking his own death strives for glory. Meanwhile his abandoned son, a boxer who thinks he's from the future, falls in love with his half-sister, the world's greatest swordfighter." With purposely graining, flickering images and a tongue-in-cheek narration, echoes of French New Wave cinema abound heavily.
Tintori comes from a film legacy; his father, John is Dean of NYU's legendary Tisch School of Film and Television and has edited over 12 features, including EIGHT MEN OUT and DOGFIGHT. Tintori attended the famed LaGuardia High School (on which the music FAME was based), where he studying visual art. Such a flair for the static media translated into success as an Art Director; before directing JETTISON, the Renaissance man art directed Benh Zeitlin's unique animated interpretation of Melville's Moby Dick, EGG (also on the Brooklyn Indpendent compilation), and worked in the art department on Michel Gondry's ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND.
His latest work DEATH TO THE TINMAN was made as his senior thesis film, and won an "Honorable Mention" in the short film category at Sundance this past January. Using what now seems to be his signature flickering Black and White aesthetic, Tintori offers a unique and witty look at the story of the WIZARD OF OZ character and a pre-Dorothy love affair. Incredibly, Tintori is only 23 years old. Indiepix commends him on his success, and hopes to support him in what are sure to be stellar future endeavors.
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