Willa Ross
Directing
Biography
Willa Ross is known for her work on Preface to a History (2019), We Three Heathens (2015), The Martyr (2017) and The Bottom of My Heart (2014).
Known For

Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.
Sad Hill Unearthed

When a diabolical English lord is murdered, Sherlock Holmes and Watson must unexpectedly exchange roles in order to solve "the perfect locked room mystery.
The Doctor's Case

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.
Still Processing

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.
Preface to a History

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.
Nine Behind
Three atheists walk the Camino De Santiago in Spain, putting their friendship and good humour to the test. A first-person documentary account of spirituality, culture, and the physical toil of an 800 km walk on the world's most famous pilgrimage.
We Three Heathens

A film about the choices we make and the chances we take. From grief and abjection to bliss and communion, it takes us through one day in the lives of two gay men.
My Thoughts Exactly

A young woman investigates her neighbour and his wildly boring running route.
La Cartographe

Two people get lost on their way to a haunted bowling alley.
Blue Boy

In the near future, a teenage girl attends a virtual reality high school.
Hekademia

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.
Pumpkin Movie

A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.
Norman Norman

A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.
In Dog Years

An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents’ pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother.
It's Him

A long night on a film set gets longer, as an intensely committed but emotionally unstable independent director races the clock to find the perfect performance for a crucial scene. As Milton Tibbons demands take after take, his cast and crew begin to lose their patience with their director's outbursts, until the director makes an emotional disclosure that pushes his set to the point of boiling over
The Martyr
A character study of a reclusive, self-fulfilling young graduate student who has fallen into a pattern of disassociation and chronic masturbation. During the course of his routines this student begins to encounter a woman who resembles a familiar figure from an online adult video. Initially shocked by this revelation, he becomes transfixed by the potential implications.
Jerk

A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.
Preface to a History

ingerence: Unwanted involvement, interruption, or meddling in the internal affairs of another person, entity, or sovereign nation.