Heroin(e)
ABOUT
Once a bustling industrial town, Huntington, West Virginia has become the epicenter of America’s modern opioid epidemic, with an overdose rate 10 times the national average. This flood of heroin now threatens this Appalachian city with a cycle of generational addiction, lawlessness, and poverty. But within this distressed landscape, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon (Hollow) shows a different side of the fight against drugs -- one of hope.
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy- and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker. Sheldon is the director of the Netflix original documentaries Heroin(e) and Recovery Boys, which explore America's opioid crisis. She has been named a Creative Capital awardee, a Guggenheim fellow, a USA fellow by United States Artists, and one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker magazine.
CREDITS
Curren Sheldon
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