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"
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".
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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