The Starling Girl Featured
Eliza Scanlen stars as seventeen-year-old Jem Starling who is struggling to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. She questions her religious devotion and her attraction to Owen (Lewis Pullman), the youth pastor. Laurel Parmet directs. (Rated R)
“An insightful portrait of coming-of-age Christian.” Hollywood Reporter
“The power of this sensitive and devilishly detailed coming-of-age drama is rooted in the friction that it finds between biblical paternalism and modern personhood.” David Ehrlich, Indiewire
Running Time: 117 minutes