I can strongly recommend a documentary I saw at the SF G&L Film Fest: Meth.
It’ll be showing in chicago on wed & thu for free. Details below:
Wednesday, June 21st and Thursday, June 22nd
Film Screening: Meth
This documentary takes an unflinching, provocative look at past and present gay users. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Panelist slated to attend include Dan Berger, MD; Dan Bigg – Chicago Recovery Alliance: film cast memeber Jim Johnson; and Jim Pickett – AIDS Foundation of Chicago.
Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
1229 W. Belmont
7:00pm
The screening is FREE and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the reminder. Also, it was nice meeting you. 🙂
Thank you, and, uh, who is this? =)
doh… it’s Chad. sorry. not sure why I wasn’t logged in.
Curious on if it’s a factual negative piece or a sensationalist negative piece. Kinda hoping the first…
It’s a descriptive piece. I think it’s intended to give us non-meth users an insight into what the meth experience is like. I think it’s also supposed to help current meth users see the big picture. It does a good job of that, imho.
I’ll have to netflix it if/when I can; would be interested to see how well they portray it. One of my best friends works at the Drug Policy Alliance, and managed to coherently and logically point out why the meth scare (overall) isn’t the incredibly screaming huge disaster the DEA is claiming, and why it *is* a terrible thing overall nonetheless.
It’s too bad they wouldn’t show anything like that in Medford, though I suppose they might in Ashland. I’ll have to see if it’ll be shown here before I’d have do dredge it up on DVD or BT.