FILMS
Through her company, MyDoc Productions, Delaney has made several feature-length documentaries (see below), including the SCREENAGERS trilogy, and many shorts, including CRISIS IN CONTROL (about psychiatric advance directives), GO AWAY EVIL (about mental health in South Africa), IF SHE KNEW (about cross-cultural medicine), and CROSSROADS (about pain and opioid addiction).
She has created other short films in partnership with organizations such as The World Health Organization, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Recovery Café. Recently she lived in India for two years as Fulbright Scholar creating films about community mental health workers.
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.
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
SCREENAGERS//
A film by DELANEY RUSTON
MyDoc Productions
Release date 2016
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.