The Filmmaker
Delaney Ruston is an internal medicine doctor and award winning documentary filmmaker who founded her independent production company, MyDoc Productions in 2004. Films by MyDoc productions have focused on controversial medical themes, such as 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 in Control, about psychiatric advance directives.Currently in post-production is the new feature documentary, Where in the world is Mental Health? This film follows the lives of people with mental illness in France, China, India, and the U.S.
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
