Single mother Nicole finally finds love but ends up in an abusive relationship where brokenness fills both of their lives causing the cycle to continue.
WHY ME!? is based on a true story and raises awareness about the ongoing domestic violence crisis. The filmmaker partnered with Michigan based domestic violence organization Haven on the project. Haven is a nationally recognized nonprofit leader that provides programs to promote violence-free homes and communities and helps victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Delores M. Flynn, a graduate of Northwestern University, worked for 11 years as a journalist at the South Bend Tribune and The Detroit News, where she spent the bulk of her career covering education, city government, courts, and entertainment news.
It was the latter assignments that resonated the most with the Chicago native who has always been a storyteller at heart. At a young age she crafted stories with her grandmother, and in graduate school she pursued her love of cinema by learning the art of screenwriting.
After putting her writing aspirations on hold to raise a family, Flynn is making her mark in the film industry as a writer/director. She has experience with shorts and features about women and children that shed light on complex relationships. Flynn digs into loss and hope as characters seek to become more than their circumstance as she explores topics like abuse, abandonment and survival.
Her short films “The Color of Hate” (an interracial love story set hours before the 1967 Detroit riot), and “mama” (a tale about woman suffering from postpartum depression who leaves her family - streaming on Tubi), have been selected in multiple film festivals and earned 24 awards. She shot her latest short – “Why Me!?” about domestic violence awareness in 2022 with support from Haven, that helps victims and survivors. Flynn directed the feature film The Easy Path in 2023 produced by The Yunion, about a young man trying to get his life together with support from a man he robbed. It will be used in schools as part of a mentorship and workforce development curriculum.
She was most recently selected as one of the Top 100 Directing Finalists in the Tyler Perry Studios Dream Collective.
Flynn resides in Michigan with her husband and two children.
The Micheaux Film Festival - 2023
