“Shattering & Enraging”
An intimate look inside the billion-dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick.
Director’s Statement
The participants in Shuffle trusted us in their most vulnerable moments with their most intimate truths. The film belongs to them. It is their story. I was the listener, the facilitator, the amplifier. My background as a person in recovery deeply informed my approach. I recognized the coded language of survival and the defensive humor in our subjects’ voices. My goal was to craft a narrative that refused to flatten them into victims or heroes, and instead allowed their contradictions to remain intact. Directing SHUFFLE was an act of witness, accountability, and ultimately love.
SHUFFLE has partnered with Twin Seas Media to launch an impact campaign aimed at sparking a nationwide dialogue on recovery—building awareness, fostering empathy, and driving change in the addiction treatment field.
#stoptheshuffle
What is the Shuffle?
The Shuffle is a process by which clients are cycled through a rinse-and-repeat style of addiction ‘treatment’ for maximum profit. It’s insurance fraud and can generate up to one million dollars a year per person in insurance reimbursements. From the outside, it may look no different than legitimate treatment.
Upcoming Screenings
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Oct 22 - Nov 2
Shuffle screens online exclusively to ticket holders during GlobeDocs Festival. -
Rendezvous with Madness FF
October 26th
5pm
CAMH Auditorium, 1025 Queen Street West, Toronto ON -
Tuesday October 28th 6pm
Rubenstein Arts Center
Duke University -
October 29th
Nantucket, MA
Detials TBD
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November 6th 7:30pm
Laemmle Monica Film Center
1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica CAQ+A to follow with the filmmakers and special guests
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Ojai Art Center 10am
113 Montgomery Street, Ojai CA 93023 -
Practical Recovery
Thursday, November 13, 7PMPrivate location in La Jolla, CA,
limited seatingContact
Tom.Horvath@practicalrecovery.com to request attendanceQ+A to follow with Producer Carra Greenberg in attendance
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November 14-15 (exact date TBD!)
Iris Global Health Film Festival
eTown Hall, Boulder CO cription -
Saturday November 15th 2:30pm
Harris Theater
809 Liberty Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15222 -
November 18th 7:30pm
Laemmle NoNo 7
5240 Lankershim Blvd. -
SXSW Film & TV Festival
UCLA Doc Legal Clinic LA
Berkshires International Film Festival
Lighthouse International Film Festival
DC DOX Film Festival
Flyover Film Festival/Louisville Film Society
River’s Edge International Film Festival
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Vashon Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival
LaSalle University
New Mexico Leaders in Recovery
Dialogues Film Festival
Screen Dallas
Morehead State University
Twelve Lions Film Festival
El Paso Film Festival
Cordillera Intl Film FestivalPikes Peak Docu Fest
An Evening with Dave Aronberg