Sidewalk Film Festival 2020 - Best Life & Liberty Film - Programmers' Award
BendFilm Festival 2020 - Official Selection
Sidewalk Film Festival 2020 - Best Editing - Special Documentary Jury Award
Naples International Film Festival 2020 - Impact Award Winner
Dallas DocuFest 2020 - Winner Best Feature Documentary
Bentonville Film Festival 2020 - Official Selection
Milwaukee Film Festival 2020 - Centerpiece Film
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COMING CLEAN, from 2x Sundance Grand Jury Winner Ondi Timoner, blazes a trail of empathy and action around the deadliest drug epidemic in our nation's history. 
The documentary takes a truly cinematic approach, unleashing all that film has to offer as it explores the depths of our urgent opioid crisis. COMING CLEAN weaves together captivating animation and deeply personal stories of loss and recovery in an attempt to demonstrate what's at stake as well as the history, science, and capitalistic systems that underpin it all. COMING CLEAN is a journey into a dark and painful subject but it is also a story - and a fight - that's tied to hope, beauty, and human connection.
The COMING CLEAN community is driven by a shared belief system: that in order to disarm this very real threat to American Life we must investigate our country's devastating trend toward loneliness, separation, and the demonization of addiction. The film follows recovering addicts, policy makers, and one fire-tested litigator as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and offer achievable solutions to this epidemic...   
  • If you’re looking for solutions to the opioid crisis, this film is for you. 
  • If you believe in the power of community to lift up those in need, this film is for you.
  • If you’re looking to feel seen and heard in the face of addiction, this film is for you. 
  • If you want to more deeply understand this complex crisis and find tools to share within your community, this film is for you.  
  • If you believe that human suffering should not be a for-profit industry, this film is for you.
We made COMING CLEAN for anyone that wants to do better by our friends, neighbors, loved ones, and nation as a whole. To date, the death toll from the opioid crisis has surpassed that of the Vietnam War, with over 72,000 people dying from overdoses every year - and these numbers are on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving opioid-related deaths up in almost every U.S. state and we must act now.
 
 
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"en eye opening film [...] I really strongly recommend it"
-Lael Loewenstein of NPR’s Film Week
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"In the six months since Covid-19 brought the nation to a standstill, the opioid epidemic has taken a sharp turn for the worse. […] In Arkansas, the use of Narcan, an overdose-reversing drug, has tripled. Jacksonville, Fla., has seen a 40 percent increase in overdose-related calls. In March alone, York County in Pennsylvania recorded three times more overdose deaths than normal.”

The New York Times (September 29, 2020)

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BEN & DESTINY

In Utah, a Mayor turned Congressman teams up with his receptionist, a recovering addict, to open a controversial treatment center.

BRITTANY

In Colorado, a State Representative fights for the most progressive opioid legislation in the U.S. after experiencing the system with her mother - who has had over 20 overdoses throughout their lives.

MIKE

In Mississippi and across the U.S., a prosecutor best known for bringing big tobacco and BP Oil to justice decides to lead the nation in a multi-district lawsuit against big pharma - all after watching his nephew overdose for the 5th time.
COMING CLEAN is an attempt to educate, spread awareness, and offer hope for those touched by the opioid crisis. We are building an aggressive outreach campaign by partnering with non-profit organizations focused on fighting the opioid crisis, as well as treatment centers and sub-committees around the country. We want to ensure that COMING CLEAN opens up a dialogue, and ultimately influences policymakers who can provide necessary resources to those in need. Our team encourages you to learn more about our crusaders here and to watch the film.

Watch COMING CLEAN!