Writer-director Laurel Parmet makes her feature film debut with The Starling Girl, which has already received positive reviews on the festival circuit and even had its South By Southwest premiere earlier this month. The film follows teenager Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen), who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky. Her upbringing can be stifling, given the repressed emotions and strict moral codes, but she finds freedom in her love of dance.
