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AMERICAN RELAPSE

AMERICAN RELAPSE
Language : English
Runtime : 105 mins.

Synopsis: AMERICAN RELAPSE is a feature documentary about the ripped-from-the-headlines heroin epidemic and the corrupt underground rehab industry that has sprung up around it in Southern Florida. This, on-the-ground documentary follows the day-to-day struggle of recovering addicts Allie and Frankie attempting to place addicts in treatment, but can they stay clean themselves?

Filmmaker Bio : Co-Directors Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt share almost 20 years difference in age bringing a unique insight on how to tell this important story. This multigenerational perspective pushes the urgency of the films narrative and presents a brutally honest POV.

Adam is an auteur writer/director whos championed scripted and unscripted projects internationally for the last 5 years. More recently, he worked extensively as senior producer of a gritty-docu-series for A&E networks. Always pushing standards higher, he pours his heart into his work and expects no less of everyone around him.

Pat, a Michigan transplant, has been passionately telling stories in television for over twenty years, both as a showrunner and creator. Producing both at home and abroad, Patrick has developed a unique area of expertise directing and showrunning in challenging and off-the-grid locations, producing shows in almost every conceivable field location -- underwater, deserted islands, volcanoes, the Arctic and even dense jungles. Whether its Nome, Alaska or Palawan, Philippines, he has assembled a talented international production company willing to go wherever the story takes them.