Movies: Melanie Neilan

High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at th...

Unfolding over the course of one very eventful day in his life, at 17-year-old preacher’s kid Henry's afternoon birthday pool party, the guests include an assortment of grown-ups from the family church, as well as Henry’s secular and religious teen f...

A teenage cancer survivor learns her friend from the hospital has died....

The Book of Leah is a coming of age story, a drama about love, culture, and above all a witness to history....

When faced with discharge, a psychiatric patient is ambivalent about returning to the real world....

16-year-old Zoe enlists the help of her two grandmothers, one Russian and the other Turkish, for a school cooking project. As the grandmother's rivalry escalates, Zoe wishes she hadn't bothered to ask them in the first place. The need for culturally ...

An Afro-Russian teenager must make a life or death decision after having his first sexual encounter with a white Russian pastor's daughter....