Rochester Recovery Film Festival - Friday schedule

Great schedule today for the Rochester Recovery Film Festival!

Friday, September 12, 2014

• 10am - 4pm - Career fair / Recovery works - Building 12 North atrium
• 5-7pm - Opening Party - Building 12 North atrium
• 7-8:30 - Film showing: King's Faith - Building 4 theater
• 8:30 - 8:45 - Film showing: Rock-Bottom - Building 4 theater
• 8:00 - 10:00pm - Film showing: Cocaine Cowboys - Building 4 theater

Saturday, September 13, 2014

• 12pm - 4:30pm - Health and Services Fair / Recovery Awareness - Building 3 atrium
• 1:00pm - 1:30pm - Film Showing: Sobering Stories - Building 4 theater
• 1:30pm - 2:00pm - Film Showing: Alien Boy - Building 4 theater  
• 1:45pm - 2:45pm - Film Showing: Recovery Messaging for adults - Building 4 theater
• 2:45pm - 3:45pm - Recovery Messaging for young adults - Building 4 theater

Most of the Saturday schedule later today!

Important Announcement

In the Spirit of Recovery Awareness The committee has decided to make the Inaugural Rochester Recovery Film Festival an Open Public Event. FREE Admission.

MCC Foundation Announces Rochester Recovery Film Festival Scholarship

Monroe Community College Foundation one of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival's Producer Partners will be setting up a Scholarship in the Honor of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival for The Addictions Counseling Program which is offered each semester at Monroe Community College.
Monroe Community College Foundation has also agreed to match up to $2500.00 in funds put towards this special scholarship.
" We are honored and humbled by this announcement. Putting this festival together has been a huge accomplishment and this has been done by all volunteers. This is great to know that Monroe Community College Foundation believes in Recovery Awareness as much as we do.Having a scholarship named in The Rochester Recovery Film Festival's Honor is just amazing to have it connected to such a great Addictions Counseling Program. Many Addiction Professionals in the Upstate New York area have graduated from this program."  said David Attridge,Director of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival.
The Rochester Recovery Film Festival will be held September 12,13,14, 2014 at Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Red, Rochester, NY.
The weekend will feature a diverse weekend of both short and full length films/documentaries by, for and about people in various forms of addiction, families, friends and those affected by addiction and the heroes who conquer addiction everyday and life the rewarding life of recovery. The festival will kick off on Friday featuring the first ever Recovery Job Fair followed by the Festivals opening party and then 3 back to back films.
Saturday will start off with The Recovery Health and Services Community Fair with Films running throughout the day. An Awards Banquet will start off our night with all of our film awards and The Addiction Professionals Award along with The Rob (G)iannotti Recovery Awareness Award being given this year to Rock Legend Lou Gramm and Award Winning Author and USA Today columnist Scott Pitoniak. Following The Awards Banquet, The Women in Recovery Film Series will begin with The Festivals Feature Film "Russell Brand's From Addiction to Recivery"
On our final day of the festival Sunday will bring our first ever Open Town Hall Meeting  where you can ask our panel of experts and local questions on the addiction topics that concern you. This being followed by the film that started it all "The Anonymous People" and then  Rock Icon Lou Gramm's award presentation and a discussion with Lou as he shares his experience, strength and hope on his addiction and his recovery.
Tickets for the Festival are available now at rochesterrecoveryfilmfestival.org

Rochester Chiropractic Associates to be at The Rochester Recovery Film Festival's Community Health and Services Fair

The Rochester Recovery Film Festival is pleased that Rochester Chiropractic Associates P.C. will be joining us at the Community Health and Services Fair on September 13, 2014 at Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Rd, Rochester, NY from 12pm to 4:30pm.
If you have been suffering from back pain, don't wait another second to begin your road to recovery. The chiropractic techniques that the doctors use at Rochester Chiropractic Associates can assist you to the rediscovery of health and wellness that had been previously known but long lost. For others the chiropractic journey may bring a sense of new balance and wellness that one has never experienced. If you want to live everyday pain free - go see Rochester Chiropractic Associates.
" Taking care of yourself physically is a huge part of Recovery and I have personally been a client of Dr.Ess since I got into recovery and I can tell my health situation has done a complete 360 and that I know  in part is because of Dr.Ess and his great team at Rochester Chiropractic Associates. I feel the best I have ever felt."said David Attridge, Director of The Rochester Recovery Film Festival.

Last Day to Save on Weekend Passes

This is the last day to save on Weekend Passes for The Rochester Recovery Film Festival. Starting September 1st Weekend Passes will increase to $35.00. Today you can get a Weekend Pass for $30.00 which ends up being $10.00 a day to see multiple movies each day.This also includes a parking pass. Tickets can be purchased through Pay Pal on our website. Get your Passes today and save.

Rochester Recovery Film Festival Awards Banquet Tickets Available Now.

The Rochester Recovery Film Festival Awards Banquet Tickets are available now on our web site through Pay Pal. The banquet will feature a fantastic buffet and of course our awards presentation  for Best Short Film, Best Documentary and Best Feature Length Film.
You will also see the presentation for both the Addiction Professionals Award and The Rob Giannotti Recovery Awareness Award.
The Awards Banquet Ticket also gets you a signed Copy of  the book"Juke Box Hero - My Five Decades of Rock N Roll" by both Lou Gramm and Author Scott Pitoniak. The Awards Banquet will be held at 5:30 pm on Saturday September 13, 2014 at Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Red, Rochester, NY.
Following The banquet our Women In Recovery Films and our feature film Russell Brand's From Addiction to Recovery will close out the night.
So great food, great awards, great speakers and great films. Tickets available now.