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Microscope presents the final night of a 3 day screening of "Overdosed" shot, edited and directed by Brooklyn-based Irish filmmaker Mary Sue Connolly. Connolly’s first feature-length work is an investigation into the opioid epidemic and an indictment of the pharmaceutical industry told through personal discussions with key figures in the small town of Petersburg West Virginia, including among others a prescribing physician and a former teenage drug dealer, both of whom spent years in prison just prior to the shooting of the film. (West Virginia is the state with the highest rate of opioid prescriptions and opioid deaths in the US.) The program is viewable from Monday November 30th at 7:30PM ET until Thursday December 3rd at 10:30pm PT. A sense of urgency and immediacy permeates “Overdosed,” which was shot between 2017 and 2019 and released just months later, reflecting the filmmaker’s hyper awareness that many people’s lives were and still are at stake. It was following the death of a family member through an accidental overdose that Connolly quit her job in television and set out for West Virginia accompanied by her young daughter, unsure of what she would find but feeling hat she “had to do something.” In the end, Connolly’s work discovers an intentional plan by big pharmaceutical manufactures and distributors to target susceptible impoverished communities and causing, in addition to overdoses and deaths, a cycle of under-education, unemployment, and imprisonment. More info: www.microscopegallery.com
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