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