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    OUR AMERICAN FAMILY provides an honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse. Captured at a pivotal, “nothing to lose” moment, then over the course of a year, five family members tired of life with addiction on center stage, each struggle to transcend their crippling histories.

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    Trauma and Beyond Psychological Center ® provides Intensive Outpatient, Partial/Day Treatment and individualized outpatient trauma programs for trauma, mental health, and co-existing disorders at our center in Los Angeles. https://www.traumaandbeyondcenter.com

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    The Mission of Westwind Recovery® is to provide a comprehensive and client-centered program that results in a powerful healing of both our clients and their families. We grow and nurture a vibrant community that is filled with healthy individuals who are living in sustainable recovery, experiencing joy and helping others to do the same.

  • REEL Recovery Film Festival filmmakers and Leonard Buschel

    REEL Recovery Film Festival Filmmakers produce films about addiction and mental illness. A gathering of filmmakers and Leonard Buschel in New York
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    REEL Recovery Film Festival co-founder Robert Downey, Sr. has passed away. In 2008, Robert Downey, Sr. father of Robert Downey, Jr. founded along with Director the REEL Recovery Film Festival. The festival now has played in 15 cities in the US and London and Vancouver.

  • Register for your free ticketsReel-recovery-film-festival-robert-downey-jr. This year’s virtual reel recovery film festival features bold, authentic filmmaking from around the world. Founded in 2008 by Leonard Buschel (pictured) and Robert Downey Sr (father of Robert Downey Jr., pictured) was the first film festival dedicated to reaching the addiction, recovery community.

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    The REEL Recovery Film Festival is presented by Writers In Treatment – Supporting recovery and the arts since 2008.

2021 FEATURE LENGTH FILMS

  • Maxie

    Two teens from opposite backgrounds try to get clean over a tumultuous weekend.
    Run Time: 103 minutes
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  • Bobbi Jo: Under the Influence

    A testimony of addiction and the discovery that to save yourself, you must save others.
    Run Time: 102 minutes
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  • My Ascension

    A suicide attempt left Emma Benoit paralyzed, but propelled on a mission to help others.
    Run Time: 88 minutes
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  • On Island

    An intimate portrait of the opioid crisis happening on Martha's Vineyard.
    Run Time: 66 minutes
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  • The Middle Way

    Musician Jam Alker’s harrowing addiction became a catalyst for him to help other addicts.
    Run Time: 68 minutes
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  • The Wisdom of Trauma

    Can our deepest pain be a doorway to healing?
    Run Time: 87 minutes
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  • Balcony

    A young man who’s facing military PTSD observes Israeli society from his balcony.
    Run Time: 50 minutes
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  • Gangster Chocolate

    a former drug addict using his story to help the new Palestinian generation in Israel
    Run Time: 60 minutes
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  • The Decline

    A Bold look at an ever-growing overdose crisis.
    Run Time: 96 minutes
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2021 Narrative Shorts

  • WHERE DO YOU GET OFF?

    Coming to terms with the ups and downs of life after death. A light-hearted, dark-comedy
    Run Time: 14 minutes
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  • Family Week

    Three families whose lives are upended by addiction, find hope at rehab's family week.
    Run Time: 34 minutes
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  • Taint in the lush green

    Frames of a pristine village tangled with its dark taints
    Run Time: 6 minutes
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  • My Mother Is The Best

    All children love their mother, but not all mothers love their children.
    Run Time: 15 minutes
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  • Dancing With Rainbow

    Nominated in Oscar Academy Award Festival.
    An Experimental Documentary;
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Angel Of Mine

    Angel is a teenager with an addiction problem who dreams of a brighter future.
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Cruel and Unusual Therapy

    Seeing a therapist is hard. Breaking up with one is harder.
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Day Job

    An apathetic custodian finds themself stuck in a repetitive rut at work.
    Run Time: 4 minutes
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  • Derelict

    A meth-addict roams a weary small town in northwest Florida in search of his next fix.
    Run Time: 21 minutes
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  • Dukkha

    An alcoholic mother goes in search of Nirvana.
    Run Time: 13 minutes
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  • EMMA Z.

    During the 3rd Amazon Anonymous meeting, Emma Z. arrives. But, just how anonymous is she?
    Run Time: 16 minutes
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  • Her Resolve

    After enduring the loss of her father, a daughter navigates past remorse to find closure.
    Run Time: 4 minutes
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  • Trapped

    So often, without rhyme or reason, it just happens.
    Run Time: 5 minutes
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  • Strength of the Sash

    A struggling young man finds refuge and a sense of self-worth in his rich Métis heritage.
    Run Time: 14 minutes
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  • Withdrawal

    After overdosing, Kyle must confront the root of his addiction before it takes him over.
    Run Time: 25 minutes
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  • Drink Up, You're Next

    "Drink Up, You're Next" is a short about the negative cultural impacts of binge-drinking.
    Run Time: 12 minutes
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  • Discharge

    Two strangers from a mental health facility decide whether or not to live together.
    Run Time: 6 minutes
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  • HUNGRY GHOSTS

    A man's desperate search for his drug-addicted wife forces him to confront his own demons
    Run Time: 18 minutes
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  • Psyched!-Pilot

    The lives and loves of the staff at Liberty Community Mental Health Team.
    Run Time: 28 minutes
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  • Be Good

    A young woman wrestles with a troubling affliction as she gets ready for a friend's party.
    Run Time: 12 minutes
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  • The Shattering!

    A girl with sleep disorders tries to navigate her life after a tragic incident occurs.
    Run Time: 9 minutes
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  • Untitled Thoughts

    “Sure, we can talk about mental health. But can we listen?”
    Run Time: 6 minutes
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  • Too Late

    The first film on Edie Sedgwick for the 50th anniversary of her death.
    Run Time: 15 minutes
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  • GOODBYE

    Mia has a severe depression, finding difficult to seek or ask for help.
    Run Time: 4 minutes
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  • Lyssa

    A woman diagnosed with schizophrenia begins seeing a stalker. Everything begins to unravel
    Run Time: 22 minutes
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  • Jack in Astoria

    An interloper creates conflict between neighbors. Welcome to Queens!
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Ek Notun Probhat

    Woman is Shakti and she has the power to overcome all hurdles
    Run Time: 17 minutes
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  • Mickey Hardaway

    A Young Sketch Artist who visits a well renowned psychiatrist as his life begins sprawling
    Run Time: 19 minutes
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  • So OCD

    A social 20-something with severe OCD tries to keep her struggle hidden during a night out
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Addiction

    An addiction controls your body, mind and soul.
    Run Time: 3 minutes
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  • Pathways to Recovery

    Tracing a winding road from substance addiction to recovery.
    Run Time: 4 minutes
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  • The Beast Within My Head

    There's an addiction crisis that is a pandemic within a pandemic.
    Run Time: 35 minutes
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  • In the Night

    A night of romance quickly turns into two people’s desperate need of connectivity
    Run Time: 18 minutes
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  • Enough of Me

    When a chance encounter changes everything.
    Run Time: 20 minutes
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  • Just Relax

    At a party, Amy must navigate the manifestations of her social anxieties.
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Day 94

    You often don't know what you need to hear until you hear it.
    Run Time: 5 minutes
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  • First Date

    Awkward, funny... awkward. It’s a first date.
    Run Time: 13 minutes
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  • The Good Voices

    And then there were three...
    Run Time: 8 minutes
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  • Blood Brothers

    A spirit haunts a recovering addict in an attempt to cause a relapse.
    Run Time: 33 minutes
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  • Inner Strength

    Express your soul, You have the power.
    Run Time: 17 minutes
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  • Anonymous

    When dark secrets come to light.
    Run Time: 16 minutes
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  • BABS

    ...until she faces the dark realities of her addiction...
    Run Time: 12 minutes
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  • The Fifth Day

    In her last day of opioid withdrawal, Sara must fight on her own to attain sobriety.
    Run Time: 6 minutes
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  • Tomorrow's Hope

    A young woman, haunted by self-doubt, finds strength through her family and culture.
    Run Time: 17 minutes
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  • Heroin(e) In Love

    A couple on the verge of falling apart heads out on the road, driven by love & addiction.
    Run Time: 14 minutes
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2021 Documentary Shorts

  • I Wanted to Write You a Thinkpiece

    A glimpse into the fractured mind of a trauma survivor's reckoning with the Trump regime
    Run Time: 7 minutes
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  • Hello Sunshine

    Roz understands that her own healing and survival depends upon healing others.
    Run Time: 13 minutes
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  • S.O.B.E.R. - DWI Courts and the Transformation from Addiction to Recovery

    S.O.B.E.R. is the story of one man's journey from addiction to recovery.
    Run Time: 22 minutes
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  • Why Do People Smoke?

    Plagued by the death of her grandfather a woman takes to the streets to ask smokers WHY?
    Run Time: 13 minutes
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  • Bridging the Gap

    A young woman grapples with the boundaries between her internal delusion and her everyday
    Run Time: 6 minutes
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  • Eating Myself Out of House and Home

    A filmmaker reflects on the social and political implications of her eating disorder.
    Run Time: 14 minutes
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  • The Long Run: Wes Doty's New Life

    Wes endured years of extreme heroin use before running across the solution to his recovery
    Run Time: 23 minutes
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  • MAD LOVE

    2 artists meet in an asylum...tested by time, trust, faith and the power of creativity.
    Run Time: 54 minutes
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  • GOOD INTENTIONS

    Alan, a 43-year-old French man struggles to overcome an addiction to methamphetamine, he
    Run Time: 39 minutes
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  • The Silent Disease

    An intimate story, a family trying to understand it’s loss into addiction as a disease an
    Run Time: 36 minutes
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  • Reality Rehab

    What happens when 4 guys in recovery try to renovate an underground bunker in Montana.
    Run Time: 15 minutes
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  • 8 Weeks To Happy

    Journalistic style film documenting weekly effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
    Run Time: 11 minutes
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  • My Friend From a Care Home

    The young woman trying to adopt her friend to get her out of an institutional care home
    Run Time: 40 minutes
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  • In Love with Craziness

    From ADHD and drug use, to redemption through the creative energy of rap music.
    Run Time: 21 minutes
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  • Sooner or Later

    Let the shadows rest behind you
    Run Time: 8 minutes
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  • Without Wings

    Horses Healing Hearts is a program to help the youngest victims of substance abuse.
    Run Time: 29 minutes
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  • The Long Road: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness

    Mental health touches everyone differently when receiving treatment or facing stigma.
    Run Time: 24 minutes
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