Cole Rutman
Directing
Biography
Cole Shane Rutman is a Canadian filmmaker and producer born in Toronto, Canada. Recognized as one of North America's "young filmmakers to watch", he was a semi-finalist at the OSCAR qualifying Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, a Gold Key recipient in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and has been nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards. Rutman is a 2-time finalist at the LA Student Film Festival and a student at Ivey Business School at Western University.
Known For
In a future where an AI called BlankBox has erased all pain from human life, a teenage boy journeys to find something that no longer exists: love.
BlankBox
Marigold Finch boards a train headed to the mysterious Chekhol Institute, a secret academy devoted to preserving "forbidden books deemed too dangerous for society". This institute is filled with eccentric rich-kid scholars known as Archivists – a group gifted with the creative power and training needed to enter story worlds and live inside them. Marigold knows that her brother Sebastian, who disappeared a few years ago, was accepted to the same archivist program before he went missing. When she discovers that Sebastian has been trapped inside an unfinished mystery novel called The Hampton Inheritance, Marigold ventures inside to save him before it's too late.
Archival: The Hampton Inheritance
After suffering amnesia from an accident, Jersey slowly uncovers the truth of the incident that caused her memory loss.