Created by Emmy Award--winning television producer Adam Oberfeld, who has been in recovery for 24 years, the film offers an unfiltered look at the realities of addiction and the possibilities of ...

How do you counter the "deaths of despair?" In a world that often cares little for those who are struggling, what systems and ...

The chalkboard doodle of a little boy comes to life. Filmmaker Benjamin Flaherty confesses that he always felt an unfillable hole deep inside him — the doodle boy’s belly turns white with emptiness — ...

A man in recovery plays basketball as an outlet to help him stay sober. A musician turns to drinking to cope with his mother’s cancer diagnosis. A teacher faces a moral dilemma: Should she punish a ...

In an age of deep division — social, political, economic — storytelling can be a way to find common ground. And movies are one way that storytelling reaches across those divides. That’s especially ...

When filmmaker Aaron Strand, originally from Athens, asked his mother-in-law to borrow her rental property between tenants to shoot his independent film, she didn’t know he would scrawl graffiti on ...

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