When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Filmed over thirty years, ANONYMOUS SISTER is director, Jamie Boyle's chronicle of her family's fall into opioid addiction, providing a poignant and timely study of what it means to experience life in all its beauty and pain.
On this episode Dawn and Jamie talk about the balance of healing and pain that comes from making a film so personal, self care in filmmaking, the value of storytelling in this epidemic, and how it can be taken a step further with post-screening Narcan trainings.
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