Title: The Breakthrough Group

Year: 2025

Synopsis:

Set inside the Other Side Academy, in Salt Lake City, Utah, “The Breakthrough Group” follows a handful of people who lived outside of society and had given up on themselves, many with ongoing cycles of addiction and recidivism. The average student has been arrested over 20 times prior to acceptance. Therapy hasn’t worked. Their families couldn’t help them. Prison made them worse. But at the end of this intensive two-year program, the rate of recidivism for their graduates is reduced from the national average of 70% to under 20%, 

Main themes: addiction, prison reform, community, healing

Core audience: Families of addicts & repeat prisoners, criminal justice reform advocates, social workers and therapists, mental health advocacy groups

What we’re doing: Community outreach and partnership for Oscar-qualifying screening campaign in Los Angeles and New York.