My Name Is ‘A’ by Anonymous, also known by the alternate release titles of My Name Is ‘A’ and Alyssa: Portrait of a Teen Killer, is a 2012 microbudget thriller film written and directed by Shane Ryan, and executive produced by Billionaire B and Ewan Bourne. The film is loosely based on a 2009 murder by then 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante, who killed her 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten.
It premiered at the PollyGrind Film Festival on October 19, 2012, where it received an award for “Best Art House Film”.[5]
Alyssa (Katie Marsh) is a troubled young teen who spends her days hanging out with her friend The Sidekick (Demi Baumann) and practicing self-harm. They also bully her younger brother Joseph (Joseph Marsh) and each other while making angry videotape messages.
The film also follows a seemingly unrelated teen, The Performer (Teona Dolnikova), who not only practices self-harm but she is also bulimic and hints that her father (Sean Cain) may be sexually abusing her. A third, also seemingly unrelated teen is The Angst (Alex Damiano).
Like The Performer, The Angst also engages in self-harm and bulimia, but unlike The Performer, the viewer is shown that her father is indeed sexually molesting her. Although initially separate with the exception of Alyssa and The Sidekick, the seemingly separate threads come together with the murder of Elizabeth (Kaliya Skye), Alyssa’s young neighbor.
