The Rochester Recovery Film Festival An Official National Recovery Month Event

The National Recovery Website www.RecoveryMonth.gov has listed The Rochester Recovery Film Festival which will be held September 12,13,14, 2014 as an Official Recovery Month Event.
The Film Festival will be held at Monroe Community College  in Rochester, NY and will feature not only the best recovery films and documentaries from around the world but a Recovery Career Fair, A Health and Services Fair and Recovery Message training events but also the first ever Community Recovery Open Town Hall Meeting ever held in Upstate New York, where anyone will be able to ask your politicians that represent this area your concerns, wants and needs for Recovery in Upstate New York.
"The Rochester Recovery Film Festival is growing by leaps and bounds every day, the amount of support being offered by individuals and area businesses is astounding.To be listed as a National Recovery Month Event is quite humbling "said the festivals Executive Director David Attridge. Mr.Attridge also said "Awareness and Education about  the Disease of Addiction are vital keys to conquer this and The Rochester Recovery Film Festival will be able to make that happen." No matter what addiction you may have or a loved one or a friend may have. This Event is for you and to show all Recovery is possible.
The National Recovery Month website is run by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA)

Rochester Recovery Film Festival Important Update

Important  Update

The Rochester Recovery Council is please to announce the following updates for The Rochester Recovery Film Festival.

The Festival will be held September 12,13,14, 2014 at Monroe Community College at 1000 East Henrietta Rd in Rochester, NY
A Recovery Career Fair opens the festival at 10 am featuring local Companies looking to hire and support anyone in recovery.
The Career Fair is a free event and open to the general public.
Following the Career Fair The Rochester Recovery Council will be hosting a party for the opening of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival.
After the opening party we will head into the theater to watch the festival's opening film "King's Faith".

This motion picture is based on a true story and was filmed locally here in Rochester,NY. A Q & A session will immediately follow this motion picture with representatives available for questions.
Also during opening night we will feature our first short film  "Rock Bottom"

Our second and final film of opening night will be the highly acclaimed  "Cocaine Cowboys" documentary.

Following this viewing another Q&A  will be held with representatives from this documentary. 

Opening the second day will be The Rochester Recovery Health and Services Fair. Our Health and Services will feature companies making aware of all the programs and services available to anyone in  Recovery in the Rochester, NY area.

Two films yet to be announced will begin showings that afternoon. Also during the  day on Saturday we will be offering free training on recovery messaging .

This training has been created by  Faces and Voices the leading voice for people in recovery. 

The training will be offered in two sessions one for adults and one for young adults.

Recovery Messaging is available for everyone and is a tool how to answer questions about recovery. You can be in long term recovery or maybe you have a loved one in recovery. This trading is free and open to the general public.

Saturday  Evening will bring us to our Awards Banquet where we will be presenting all of our film festival awards and our Recovery Addiction Professional Award along with The Rob G Recovery Awareness Award to be presented to that individual who has focused on showing the rewards of recovery.

The Awards Banquet will also feature our main speaker Jennifer Giminez  Jennifer is the star of MTV's Sober House, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and is the creator of The ever popular web site Sober book.com.

Following our banquet our featured documentary On Life's Terms: Mothers in Recovery will be shown followed by a Special Q & A with the films creator and director Sheila Ganz.

The evening will end with a Young Adults in Recovery Party with live entertainment and music all night long.

Sunday will start with a spiritual service to start off our day and will be followed by the first annual Recovery Open Town Hall meeting where your local representatives in  office will discuss and answer questions from attendees out four topics to be brought forward.

Immediately following the Recovery Open Town Hall Meeting will have our festival closing film The Anonymous People. A Q&A will happen after the filming. The Rochester Recovery Film Festival will then close out 2014 and we will begin planning 2015.

Weekend Passes are available now at a discounted rate of $25.00 through our website. Day Passes are available at the discounted rate of $10.00 each. These discounted prices are available through July 15,2014 Banquet Tickets will not be available until July 20,2014.  More updates will 

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Rock Bottom added to Rochester Recovery Film Festival Line up

Short Film "Rock Bottom" has been added to the growing list of films to be shown at this years Rochester Recovery Film Festival .
Directed by Rick Lord and produced by Lord and Phillip Wade for Match light Films. "Rock Bottom"  asks the all to familiar questions "What are the warning signs when one hits rock bottom?"," What are the consequences" "Is their a way back and how does one find it?"
Rock Bottom is about a man who faces all of these unwanted challenges. Does he find his way back from this path of self destruction? For those who know of someone who suffers from the disease of addiction this film is definitely for you.

The Rochester Recovery Film Festival will be held on September 12,13,14,2014 at Monroe Community College in Rochester,NY.
A full Schedule of Events can be found at Rochester Recovery Film Festival

Weekend Passes Go on Sale Thursday June 19,2014 for The Rochester Recovery Film Festival

The Rochester Recovery Council is pleased to announce that Weekend Passes will be available for purchase beginning June 19 through PayPal for The Rochester Recovery Film Festival to be held at Monroe Community College September 12,13,14, 2014.
"The Recovery Weekend Pass will allow access to all of The Films being shown during the festival. With our advance special pricing you can't go wrong" said Films Selection Director Jen Oberlies.
A Weekend Pass will get you into all movies being shown along with the Q & A Sessions with Film Representatives to immediately following each showing. Each Pass will include V I P Parking each day and discounted prices for tickets to the festivals Opening Party and Awards Banquet on Saturday Night.
The Weekend Pass will be available for Only $25.00 from June 19 - June 30, 2014.
Starting July 1 -31,2014 Prices will increase to $30.00 for the Weekend Pass.
Opening Party and Award Banquet Tickets and Details will be announced at a later date. Keep checking back the web site for Details.

The Rochester Recovery Film Festival Adds Cocaine Cowboys to Opening Night

The Rochester Recovery Council has announced that the highly acclaimed film/documentary Cocaine Cowboys has been added to opening night festivities.
Cocaine Cowboys is a documentary film directed by Billy Corben and produced by Corben and Alfred Spellman through their Miami based media studio Rakontur
Cocaine Cowboys explores the rise of cocaine and the resulting crime epidemic of the American City of Miami, Florida during the 1970's and the 1980's.
The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, drug smugglers and gang members to show a first hand perspective of the Miami drug war.
Cocaine Cowboys premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival and Jan Hammer  whom you likely recall as having composed and performed the theme for the hit television series "Miami Vice" also composed and performs the score for Cocaine Cowboys.
"We are so pleased to be able to offer Cocaine Cowboys to our attendees at The Rochester Recovery Film Festival. Cocaine Cowboys offers a true look into how within a matter of months a city the size of Miami can be taken over when an epidemic like cocaine in the 70's and 80's is ignored" said Rachel Eveland  Artistic Director for The Rochester Recovery Film Festival.
Cocaine Cowboys will be shown on Opening Night of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival September 12,2014 at 9:00pm at Monroe Community College followed by a 40 minute discussion about the film.
Weekend Passes and Daily Passes for The Rochester Recovery Film Festival can be purchased on rochesterrecoveryfilmfest.blogspot.com starting June 23,2014.

The Anonymous People Makes a Return Engagement at The Rochester Recovery Film Festival

After a near sellout at the Little Theater in Rochester, NY on April 6, 2014 The Rochester Recovery Council is proud to announce the return engagement of The Anonymous People to The Rochester Recovery Film Festival as this years closing film of the festival on September 14,2014 at Monroe Community College.
The Anonymous People is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million American people living in long term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Deeply entrenched social stigma and discrimination have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by mass media deception of people in active addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination at the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition. Just like women with breast cancer or people with HIV/Aids, courageous addiction recovery advocates are starting to come out of the shadows to tell their true  stories.
 The moving story of The Anonymous People is told through the faces and voices of leaders, volunteers,corporate executives and celebrities who are laying all on the line in order to save lives of others just like them. This passionate new recovery movement is fueling a  changing conversation that aims to transform public opinion and finally shift problematic policy toward lasting Recovery Solutions.
"This what The Rochester Recovery Film Festival is all about, making people aware that recovery is possible. I am living proof of that today.Addiction is a disease but it can be arrested. The disease of addiction is everywhere in some of our homes,  and neighborhoods. There are services available to those with this disease. No one should have to die from this disease. The recovery movement needs to be as active as the disease." Said David Attridge, Director of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival.

On Life's Terms: Mothers in Recovery Another Must See At The Rochester Recovery Film Festival

The Rochester Recovery Council is proud to announce another must see documentary at this years Rochester Recovery Film Festival On Life's Terms: Mothers in Recovery. This highly acclaimed documentary has people talking everywhere.
On Life's Terms:Mothers in Recovery follows five women struggling to keep their children as they battle addict Center Point Inc. A women and children residential treatment program in San Rafel,California. Their intimate stories reveals experiences with domestic violence, prostitution and Incarceration, as they courageously step onto the path of self-sufficiency with integrity and pride.
Their three year journey is told against the backdrop of drug laws and policies affecting both the mother and child. This timely film impacts the stigma and encourages greater understanding and underlying issues about the disease of addiction and promotes  the widely needed need for substance abuse treatment vs incarceration.
This documentary film is written,produced,edited and directed by Sheila Ganz. Bringing hidden issues to light, this black belt in karate and activist for women and children everywhere. Ganz is no stranger to the film industry. A film instructor at Film Arts Foundation, Ganz also wrote two full length stage plays "Pretend it Didn't Happen" and "Leaving Joe". None of that stopped Ganz as she completed her first film documentary "Unlocking the Heart" which has shown audiences worldwide the lifelong process of adoption for adoptees, birthparents and adoptive parents in same race and trans racial adoptions with illuminating historical background.

On Life's Terms:Mothers in Recovery will be shown at The Rochester Recovery Film Festival on Saturday September 13,2014 at Monroe Community College at 8:00pm.

King's Faith announced as The Rochester Recovery Film Festival Opener

The Rochester Recovery Council is proud to announce this years opening film at The Rochester Recovery Film Festival September 12,2014.
King's Faith directed by Nicholas DiBella and written by DiBella and Paul Root King's Faith is about a teen named Brendan King and after his life hits rock bottom , the teen finds hope in a new relationship with Christ while serving time in a Juvenile Detention Center.After his release from prison Brendan finds solace in the foster home of a couple struggling with suppressed grief. As the city-bred teen enrolls in the local suburban high school, his support comes from a group of believers. Yet the bonds of his old way of life-and the gang that wants to know where he hid their stash from a night long ago are strong.

In his darkest moments Brendan finds faith. Now he must decide whether its worth the price to hold onto it.
King's Faith stars Emmy Award winning actor Lynn Whitfield along with Crawford Wilson, Kayla Compton and James McDaniels.
"With Spirituality and faith in a Higher Power being vital to any type of recovery and with some of the scenes being filmed in Rochester, We felt King's Faith was the perfect choice to have as our Opening film at this years Rochester Recovery Film Festival." Said the Recovery Film Festival's director David Attridge.
King's Faith will be shown at the Rochester Recovery Film Festival Opening night September 12,2014 at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY at 7:00 pm. Following the film will be a 40 minute question and answer session with executives from the film including director Nicholas DiBella.
To view a trailer of the film please visit the film's website at kingsfaith.com