Director/co-writer/producer Catherine Argyrople has hit the ground running with her first full-length feature, Growing Pains. As a teen, she recalled the pang of losing a best friend among the other trials of adolescence; later, as a young first-time filmmaker, she longed to see stories like her own on screen. And so, inspired by a screenwriting class, she took the initiative to do herself what few like her in the industry do: to script, direct, and produce a feature-length film about young women, and to do so with an all-female crew.