SARFF: Generation Found

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. 

Generation Found

Directed by: Jeff Reilly, Greg D. Williams

(USA 2016 1hr 25m)

A powerful story about one community coming together to ignite a youth addiction recovery revolution in their hometown. Devastated by an epidemic of addiction, Houston faced the reality of burying and locking up its young people at an alarming rate. And so in one of the largest cities in America, visionary counselors, law school dropouts, aspiring rock musicians, retired football players, oil industry executives, and church leaders came together to build the world’s largest peer-driven youth and family recovery community. Independently filmed over the course of two years, this film takes an unprecedented and intimate look at how a system of treatment centers, sober high schools, alternative peer groups, and collegiate recovery programs can exist in concert to intervene early and provide a real and tested long-term alternative to the “War on Drugs.” It is not only a deeply personal story, but one with real-world utility for communities struggling with addiction worldwide.