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Opening Night Food and Film - 9th Annual REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium

Please join us for a scrumptious event kicking off our 9th Annual REEL Recovery Film Festival and Symposium. Sponsors and others, please bring business cards and brochures.
We will then have the pleasure of seeing the LA Premiere of "The Long Way Back" and meet the filmmakers and Todd Zalkins aka Z-MAN, who after losing his friend Bradley Nowell to a heroin overdose, fights for his life in what will become the worst drug crisis in American History, the Opioid Epidemic. Against all odds, Todd is able to break a seventeen year addiction to prescription pain killers and dedicates his life to helping others who struggle with addiction. In a twist of fate, Todd is presented with an opportunity to help Bradley Nowells son, Jakob battle his own addiction with drugs and alcohol. A story of redemption, and recovery, The Long Way Back shatters the stigma associated with prescription painkiller addiction and offers a strong message of hope and awareness After losing his friend Bradley Nowell to a heroin overdose, as he fights for his life in what will become the worst drug crisis in American History, the Opioid Epidemic. Against all odds, Todd is able to break a seventeen year addiction to prescription pain killers and dedicates his life to helping others who struggle with addiction. In a twist of fate, Todd is presented with an opportunity to help Bradley Nowells son, Jakob battle his own addiction with drugs and alcohol. A story of redemption, and recovery, The Long Way Back shatters the stigma associated with prescription painkiller addiction and offers a strong message of hope and awareness