American Minor
Written & Directed by: Charlie White
Actor: Callie Calva
Cinematographer: Wyatt Troll
Editor: Michael Heldman
Executive Producer: Biscuit Filmworks
Producer: Lisa Stockdale
Production Designer: Sue Tebbutt
Sound Design: Doug Darnell

American Minor is a meditation on the popular image of the American teen girl. Through carefully created, lingering scenes, the film focuses on the external environment and internal state of a fourteen-year-old, upper-middle-class blonde girl whose world is defined through products, objects, and perpetual consumption. The film observes a single, protracted morning in the life of a picture-perfect American youth lost in the dehumanizing space that wealth, isolation, and fear can provide. By watching this American teen perform basic acts, from eating cereal, to watching television, to combing her hair, the film aims to reveal the complicated relationship between personal pleasure and politics, youth and sexuality, and class and suppression.

The film was selected to screen at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was among twelve international short films to screen in the 2009 Directors' Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival. Since its creation, the Directors' Fortnight has discovered and held the first French screenings of debut films by Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmush, Michael Haneke, Spike Lee, the Dardenne Brothers, and Sofia Coppola.