“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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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 Festival
Pikes Peak Docu Fest
An Evening with Dave Aronberg
Wilmington International Film Festival
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
Ojai Film Festival
Film for Thought Series at Nantucket Dreamland
Laemmle Monica Film CenterIris Global Health Festival
Three Rivers Film Festival
Laemmle NoHo 7
Kinema
National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA)
Vermont Law and Graduate School
Coalition Against Insurance Fraud 2025 Annual Meeting
Cato Institute
Cinema Worcester
DCTV Firehouse Cinema
University of Central Florida
Voices of Hope Maryland
Central Florida Film Festival
Monica Film Center
Laemmle NoHo
Time & Space Limited
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center
Bijou Theater