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Aaron
Dworetzky

Co-Founder | Director of Development

Aaron Dworetzky cut his first film at ten—stop‑motion characters, an uncle’s Avid, and a stubborn belief that perfection is worth an all‑nighter. Today he channels that same mischievous rigor into Imminent Films, his Los Angeles base for stories that slip from dark comedy to raw confession. Front‑and‑center is The Herman Project, a mockumentary road movie where a blind best friend guides the chaos, forcing Aaron’s on‑screen alter‑ego to surrender the steering wheel—literally and figuratively.Trained at USC and refined in New York’s commercial studios, Aaron brings animation‑honed timing and meticulous precision to every frame. He coordinated the Emmy‑nominated VFX team on Ted Lasso Season 3 and created Apartment 69, a comedy short that played the Portland and Austin Comedy Film Festivals.Through Imminent Films, Aaron develops outsider‑focused, psychologically layered, unapologetically queer stories—work built to hit hard and entertain, proving that lean teams can rival studio scale.

Renato
Miguel Ruiz

Co-Founder | Writer | Creative Executive

Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Renato Miguel Ruiz is a writer-director whose work is shaped by the layered identity of growing up the son of a Mexican immigrant. His stories explore masculinity, loneliness, and emotional honesty—often through a queer lens and always with a focus on grounded, character-first filmmaking.He began his career in VFX on Alice in Wonderland and The Amazing Spider-Man, before earning his MFA in Film Production from USC.Renato is currently developing Art & Melody, a feature film about unrequited love and the quiet weight of emotional withholding. With fellow USC alum Aaron Dworetzky, he co-runs Imminent Films, where they’re building a slate of bold, character-driven projects—including The Trouble With Dick, a Hitchcock-inspired dark comedy about five gay friends and a mysteriously dead body in Provincetown.Renato’s work blends humor, depth, and a commitment to telling emotionally resonant stories that feel specific, lived-in, and urgently human.

Marissa
Dimitrion

Director | Creative Developer

Marissa Dimitrion was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i to Greek-Cypriot parents. Her mom collected old cameras, which sparked her interest in film and photography as a way to explore the contradictions human life around her.This led to her studies of visual anthropology (B.A. and M.A., USC) where today her research-driven work blends documentary, animation, and experimental film practices to explore different acts of cultural defiance.She honed development and post-production skills at indie and documentary studios, including Hard Working Movies—supporting research, script coverage, and project development—and assisted editorial on the feature doc Dani’s Twins while contributing to projects for Adidas, Ms. Purple, and Funny or Die.She is currently screening her short documentary film, ‘Sorry, No Refunds’ - a film about a stripper that returns to the club after a painful divorce to reclaim her identity. The project aims to challenge the binary narrative of empowerment versus exploitation in sex work.While collaborating with Imminent Films, she is also finalizing Gabriel—a meditative portrait of a young musician in New York, whose reflections on creativity and resistance are shaped by the struggles of loved ones in Palestine.She is drawn to gray areas: moments of cultural defiance, transgressions against complacency, and the messy, radical act of moving head-on into discomfort.

The Herman Project

Road Trip Comedy | Mockumentary

When a confrontation-avoidant blind man joins his best friend on a road trip to revisit the past, he’s forced to process the death of his old guide dog—and the deeper emotional bonds he’s spent years refusing to acknowledge.

Art & Melody

Coming-of-Age | Drama

A musically gifted but closeted farmworker and his effervescent backup singer bestie, united by their Mexican heritage and familial expectations, they risk everything to pursue their childhood musical dreams—facing unrequited love, betrayal, and self-discovery along the way to success.

The Trouble
With Dick

Dark Comedy | Satire

Five friends reunite for a gay getaway weekend in Provincetown, only to discover a corpse, Richard, aka “Dick,” on the shore of their beachfront rental, upending their pride festivities as they work together to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding his life and death, pushing their longtime friendships to the limit.