Our American Family is a radically honest, unfiltered portrait of a close-knit Philadelphia family fighting its greatest nemesis: generational addiction. Beginning with a pivotal, “nothing to lose” moment, then captured over the course of the following year, five family members tired of life plagued by addiction on center stage, each struggle to transcend their crippling histories: a mother who learned from childhood to enable her own mother’s addiction, a daughter who doesn’t know who she is without a substance, a son who learned everything about “Heroin 101” from his sister, a younger son who feels alone but acts content to ease the family’s burden, and a stepfather who wonders if addiction is really a disease or simply a by-product of laziness. What will it take to shift this entrenched, wrenching pattern in their lives? How will they each free themselves from their interlocking fates? Will they be able to make significant changes to help their next generation? The members of Our American Family invite us into their lives to find hope and to explore what is possible. No experts. No drug use. No melodrama. (Our American Family, 2021)

WORLD PREMIERE–Feature Length Documentary (USA)
RT 87 mins
Directed and produced by Hallee Adelman and Sean King O’Grady

Tickets are available for the Woodstock Film Festival 2021 Screenings
World Premiere: Saturday October 2 at 3:45p.m.
Bearsville Theater
291 Tinker St
Woodstock, NY 12498

Sunday October 3 at 2p.m.
Orpheum Theatre Saugerties
156 Main St
Saugerties, NY 12477