SARFF: Call Me Lucky

2016 is The South African Recovery Film Festival’s 4th year, and they are delighted to continue presenting documentary and feature films that explore themes of addiction and mental health issues in association with their main sponsors, the South African College Of Applied Psychology.

SARFF aims to educate and inform, to create debate and discussion – and to promote the solutions and successes of Recovery from the debilitating problems of addiction. They also hope to entertain and provide a safe space for people from all parts of the Recovery community to come together. The Festival aims to challenge the stigma and shame that surround addiction, alcoholism and mental health issues. They believe that stigma often drives ignorance of the conditions and makes access to help difficult, providing no space to celebrate the solutions. 

SARFF will be donating R5 of each ticket sold to the Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre.

Call Me Lucky

Directed by: Bobcat .Goldthwait

(USA 2015 1hr 46m)

Call Me Lucky is the inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important figures: Barry Crimmins. A fearless, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic, Crimmins’ work in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath his gruff, hard- drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-suppressed and horrific abuse as a child – a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and television shows and into the political arena. As a survivor of abuse, Crimmins found his unique path to recovery by not only noisily challenging government and internet corporations, but also quietly being there for others, walking with them on their own journeys. Crimmins pulls no punches in his quest to hold us all accountable for the world we share.