FILMS
Through her company, MyDoc Productions, Delaney has made the following feature-length documentaries, the SCREENAGERS trilogy, HIDDEN PICTURES, and UNLISTED. Scroll down to learn about each film.
Ruston has made many short films, including in partnership with organizations such as The World Health Organization, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Recovery Café.
As a Fulbright Scholar Ruston made films about community mental health workers in India. In addition, she has made short films about cross-cultural medicine, opioid addiction, psychiatric advance directives, and others.
SCREENAGERS: GENERATION AI
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2026
Synopsis
Screenagers: Generation AI examines how artificial intelligence has rapidly entered the lives of young people and what it means for their relationships, learning, and wellbeing.
Just a few years ago, AI in kids' lives barely existed. Today, many are turning to chatbots for advice, friendship, and emotional support. Others use AI to write essays, solve homework, and shape their social lives. And kids are being targeted, from deepfake harassment to AI-generated content designed to encourage harm.
Smartphones, social media, and endless screen time became rampant in children's lives long before society took the harms seriously. We can't afford to repeat that mistake with AI.
Weaving together candid stories, cutting-edge science, and honest insights from adults and youth, the film confronts AI's risks while offering a path forward for young people's social, academic, and emotional well-being.
SCREENAGERS - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDITION
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2024
Synopsis
This new version of the original Screenagers movie addresses issues that elementary school aged kids, parents and educators are facing, i.e., smartwatches in class, unhooking from and monitoring video gaming, social media pressures and exposure too young, what research shows is a healthy amount of screen time, and many solutions to these and other challenges.
SCREENAGERS: UNDER THE INFLUENCE//
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2023
Synopsis
Screenagers Under The Influence: Addressing Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age, the third feature documentary in the Screenagers trilogy, delves into how the tech revolution has reshaped adolescence and its effects on substance use. The film debunks myths and depicts strategies parents and schools can use to encourage healthy decision-making, support teen mental health, set limits, and create healthy home environments. The film also includes many ways young people are using their wisdom and strength to help each other and themselves through this complicated terrain around substance use.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SCREENAGERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE
SCREENAGERS: NEXT CHAPTER//
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2019
Synopsis
High stress, anxiety, and depression are experienced by millions of young people. We follow physician and filmmaker, Delaney Ruston, as she discovers solutions for improved adolescent well-being in the digital age.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SCREENAGERS NEXT CHAPTER
UPDATED FOR 2024/25
SCREENAGERS//
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2016, Updated 2024/25
Synopsis
Award-winning SCREENAGERS probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director's own, and depicts messy struggles, over social media, video games, academics, and internet addiction. Through surprising insights from authors and brain scientists solutions emerge on how we can empower kids to best navigate the digital world.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SCREENAGERS
HIDDEN PICTURES//
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2013
Synopsis
Filmmaker Ruston experienced the silence that surrounds mental illness from her own family experience (as seen in the Award winning film, UNLISTED).When she learns that 450 million people globally have a mental health condition she realizes their plight is the most hidden of all. How are people accepted or rejected? What is mental health care like? Who is helping?
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT HIDDEN PICTURES
UNLISTED//
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2009
Synopsis
Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia is a gripping documentary that depicts the struggle of the filmmaker, Delaney, as both daughter and doctor, to bring her paranoid schizophrenic father back into her life after hiding from him for 10 years. It is a riveting story about one daughter’s determination to mend her torn family that challenges audiences to reflect upon their own ideas of mental illness, compassion, and responsibility.