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“Pink Skies Ahead” star Jessica Barden has a personal connection to the movie — and its focus on mental health awareness.“At the time I was making the movie I was like everybody else, a typical kid in their 20s [and] I definitely knew I had anxiety,” Barden, 28, told The Post.

With Pink Skies Ahead and Holler, Jessica Barden explored two very different perspectives on what it’s like to come of age in America.

UPDATED with release date: Pink Skies Ahead, the drama written and directed by Kelly Oxford that MTV Entertainment Studios acquired ahead of its world premiere at last year’s AFI Fest, will premiere commercial free on MTV and simulcast on Pop TV on Saturday, May 8 at 9 p.m. It will bow as part of MTV’s newly launched Mental Health is Health initiative.

Kelly Oxford’s debut feature Pink Skies Ahead is the kind of coming-of-age comedy that is destined for cult status, if not full-on indie success. It has all the necessary ingredients of an upper-middle-class coming-of-age comedy: a young woman trying to find herself, a pair of worried, coddling parents, and a crew of comical friends.

The blue-haired Winona (Jessica Barden), while driving, vents to an unseen man about living with her parents. She fumes, “I want to stick a fork into an electrical socket every minute that I’m there.” A recent-college dropout, the twenty-year-old Winona lives in arrested development with her parents in their Los Angeles suburban home.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn first-time-director Kelly Oxford’s snappy, super-saturated account of her personal battle with anxiety disorder, “Pink Skies Ahead,” the main character is named Winona, but it’s her best friend Stephanie who does all the shoplifting. It’s like a compulsion: Every time they go to the convenience store, Winona distracts the awkward, androgynous-looking clerk behind the counter while Stephanie roams the candy aisle, filling her pockets.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: MTV Studios has acquired the worldwide rights to Stampede Ventures’ coming-of-age film Pink Skies Ahead from writer/director Kelly Oxford. The film will make its worldwide premiere at the AFI Film Festival tomorrow.Set in Los Angeles in 1998, the film follows Winona, who after dropping out of college and moving back home to live with her parents, is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.

Music icon Britney Spears is very open with her fans on her Instagram page and she’s not afraid to show off her true self to the world. However, the author and screenwriter Kelly Oxford doesn’t seem to be a fan.

Sam Asghari has had it with the comments being made about Britney Spears!

Sam Asghari clapped back at Kelly Oxford after the author called his girlfriend Britney Spears‘ Instagram account “scary.”The Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar author, 43, took to Spears’ Instagram comments after the “Toxic” singer, 38, posted a recent video. “This account finally got too scary for me,” Oxford wrote.Asghari, 26, replied, “What’s so scary about being the biggest superstar in the world being herself (authentic, funny, humble) without caring what others think.

Britney Spears is very open with her fans on her Instagram page and she’s not afraid to show off her true self to the world.

In an alternate COVID-19-less universe, Kelly Oxford is riding high off the huge debut of her directorial effort, “Pink Skies Ahead,” after its debut at SXSW.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: On the heels of her debut feature film, Pink Skies Ahead, writer/director Kelly Oxford’s spec feature script, Son Of A Bitch has been put into development at HBO Max with Oxford being brought on to direct.In the vein of Bridesmaids, the script is a raucous comedy about a young stoner who tries to maintain her popular party girl image after she discovers she’s fallen pregnant.