SHUFFLE
Through the lens of his own recovery, a filmmaker offers a character-driven look inside the billion dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick. What begins as an investigation of a street-level scam, explodes to uncover systemic conflicts-of-interest and collusion at the highest levels of government.
Benjamin Flaherty is a filmmaker and photographer with a diverse collection work over the past 15 years – from documentary and art films with Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel to commercial spots for major brands like Humana and KFC. His short form PSA’s have been awarded at Cannes, D&AD, One Show and the Clios. He is currently in post-production on his documentary feature debut, Shuffle, recipient of a 2020 Enterprise Development Grant for Investigative Journalism from the International Documentary Association. He’s lived and worked in Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. He’s currently based in Austin.