I Just Want to be Loved(2025)

23m

"Just Want to be Loved" is an intimate, heart-wrenching drama about a teenage girl left adrift after her father walks out following a bitter divorce. The abandonment leaves a wound she carries into adulthood, driving her to chase affection in all the wrong places. Now entangled with a married man who echoes the very traits of her absent father, she’s forced to confront the painful patterns that keep her from finding the love she truly deserves.

Director:

Betty Pinckney

Cast:

Amy Barnes as Diane Sims-Banks

Gregory Ward as Nate Banks

Kenya Tomlinson as Older Tina Banks

Bernice Sims as Bernice Sims

Brandon K. Williams as James Turner

Janyla Samuels as Younger Tina Banks

Joanna Buchner as Aliyah Turner

Crew:

Betty Pinckney - producer

Betty Pinckney - writer