Ricky D'Ambrose
Ricky D'Ambrose is a writer and filmmaker in New York City. His second feature, The Cathedral, won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards.
By Ricky D'Ambrose
| June 26, 2026
Movies are so tied to nationality: title, director, year, country. Those four things frame how we view a film. I’m Argentinian, but I’ve lived half my life in New York. I have an American passport, but I’m not fully American as a filmmaker. And I’m not fully Argentine either. There’s always something slightly off. That sense of displacement connects to the fairy tale.
By Ricky D'Ambrose
| April 5, 2023
It was like being back in art school, back to an earlier day in filmmaking where I was just like, “I’ll do this pan because how much am I going to screw it up?” It was just very freeing in making those shorts. I really loved it.