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 - 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.