Rose Sutton
Writing
Biography
Rose Sutton, of full Syrian-Jewish descent, is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker specializing in directing, producing, and photography. A recent graduate of NYU Tisch’s Film & Television program as a Tisch Scholarship recipient, her work explores emotional complexity, and the interplay between lived experience—past, present, and imagined—and artistic expression. Born in Los Angeles and raised across shifting homes after her parents' divorce, Rose developed a deep appreciation for storytelling that embraces nuance, abstraction, and collaboration. Her style leans into bold visual experimentation, often merging music, movement, and layered imagery to evoke feelings that resist traditional narrative.
Known For
Leo, a trans man with undiagnosed ADHD, is on his way to win back his ex-girlfriend when his plans are thwarted by a storm, forcing him to slow down and reevaluate.
Leo Lets It Rain
At an album cover shoot, a music journalist becomes quietly fixated on the woman behind the camera-unaware she's the same woman who rejected her at a wedding a year earlier.
CAVES
After Cupid misses his heart and punctures his lungs instead, a young man struggles to find true love.
Love Locked
A Syrian, Jewish dancer struggles to grapple with the sudden loss of her hearing.
The Music Coma
A Brooklyn-based painter is urged by her therapist to explore the synastry between her recent breakup and childhood traumas.
Color My Grey Street
A dance short that explores love through the concept of equations and the element of fire; unraveling the sensual, tender exploration that comes with opposite attraction. Beneath opposing forces, harbors a unified, shared energy-- intangible to touch, yet, utterly felt.
Exchange of Fire
In war-torn Aleppo, a father turns falling bombs into a game to shield his daughter from fear inside their tent.
Amal
A woman is stalked by an insidious conspiracy following the disappearance of her best friend.
The Terrestrial
A young woman must seek the help of the world's most useless superhero to numb herself to the emotion of grief before losing her dying grandmother.
Empathy Man
An 11-year-old must choose between fitting in and standing up for her sister with Down syndrome after her friend excludes her from her Bat Mitzvah.