A deeply personal look into people’s experience with unemployment and isolation during the global pandemic. With busy phone lines and rising unemployment numbers, millions of Americans were unheard in this crisis. In an effort to change that, this film set up an unemployment hotline where people could call in and leave their story. Narrated by immensely intimate and honest voicemails sent in from all across the U.S. About the Director:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f677900a7514da25d6da736028bfdea5.jpg" width="152" style="display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; float: right;">Nikos Campbell is a twenty year old self taught filmmaker from Washington State. He began making films at an alternative school where students create their own curriculum. He used that freedom to make his own film program and curriculum he followed throughout high school creating over 25 films. Nikos’s films center around creating spaces for people to share their own stories. He strives to create moving portraits of life and feeling.

Unemployment Hotline

A deeply personal look into people’s experience with unemployment and isolation during the global pandemic, narrated by immensely intimate and honest voicemails sent in from all across the U.S.

The untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America. Here, we meet a criminal gang that diverted pills from the “opioid glut'' in Florida up to Boston, and how they were unwittingly working for the pharmaceutical distributors. In an ironic twist, these criminals, who served time in jail and accepted responsibility for their actions, seem far more remorseful about their role in the opioid crisis than the exceedingly well-paid CEOs of the companies that flooded the country with the pills. Programmer Notes: It plays like a thriller while being very informative and at times emotional.&nbsp;The scale of corporate greed and the lengths gone to for profit from opioids paint a damning portrait of for-profit medicine, doctors and the pharmaceutical industy that drives them.&nbsp; About the Director:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/db3ee710474b78a2df96f6d4c661768e.jpg" width="202" style="display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; float: right;">Producer and director Brendan FitzGerald is a 3-time Emmy award nominee known for his work with Vice, Netflix, HBO, and Viceland. Notable credits include executive producer for the Emmy Nominated show Gaycation and the HBO Special “A World in Disarray.” He was also an executive producer for Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond. The Oxy Kingpins is Brendan’s feature directorial debut.

The Oxy Kingpins

The untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America.

Drea Bernardi (Producer) discusses "The Oxy Kingpins" with Emily Cureton.

The Oxy Kingpins Q&A

Tyler Carson (Subject, Living Music), Nikos Campbell (Director, Unemployment Hotline), and Danny Navarro (Director, My Neighbor, Miguel) discuss their short films with James Westby.

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The Oxy Kingpins w/ Unemployment Hotline

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