The Filmmaker
Delaney Ruston is an internal medicine doctor and award winning documentary filmmaker who founded her independent production company, MyDoc Productions 10 years ago. Films by MyDoc productions have focused on controversial medical themes, such If She Knew, which explores the ethics of withholding bad news from patients, and Crossroads, the Intersection of Pain and Addiction.
Ruston began her focus on mental illness with her short about her relationship with her mentally ill father entitled, Unlisted which aired on PBS. This film became the catalyst for her recent feature documentary, Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia. Ruston has also just completed Crisis and Control: What’s the Role of Psychiatric Advance Directives. In production is another film on mental health entitled; Where in the world is Mental Health? This film will provide a much needed global perspective on the care of the severely mentally ill. Filming was done thus far in China and France.
Ruston completed medical school at Stanford University and a Medicine Residency and Fellowship in Medical Ethics at the University of California at San Francisco. All the while Delaney has been producing films, she has also been providing primary medical care in clinics for underserved patients. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two young children.
“Unlisted is an important and much needed exploration of the impossible burdens placed on daughters to be caregivers. And Delaney Ruston takes on the hardest question: What does a daughter do when called upon to parent a parent who never parented her?”
- Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of Terror Dream and Backlash
