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Filmmaking Team Behind Award-Winning Documentary Which Was the Basis of Movie "The Fighter" Is Back Together to Tackle the Heroin Epidemic

 

Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/10/2014 -- LISTVERSE ranked the Top 10 Shocking Documentaries of all time. High on Crack Street, the documentary film viewed on HBO, was rated 10th. They called it, “A remarkable film about a horrific plague, High on Crack Street is unwavering in its portrayal of crack addiction.”

Two of the filmmakers, Academy Award winner Maryann DeLeo and bestselling author Richie Farrell spent 18 months following the highs and lows of three crack addicts from Lowell, Massachusetts. HBO had asked the filmmakers to make a documentary film portraying the truth about how crack cocaine was destroying America. Their goal was to create a powerful film that would stand as a deterrent for those heading down the insidious road toward crack addiction. It was successful.

In 2010, Christian Bale won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Dickie Eklund in the movie, The Fighter, based on the documentary film High on Crack Street.

DeLeo and Farrell, along with Oscar nominated filmmaker Isabel Vega, have joined together to tackle another horrific plague facing America: Heroin. From the cartels, the mules carrying heroin into America’s heartland, to law enforcement’s battle to maintain the spread to, finally, the new and very real faces of heroin addicts in America.

The team will travel and document ‘Heroin Highway’, from Robstown, Texas into America’s heartland for 18 months. They will follow the real lives of several people that are in a fight for their lives, battling heroin addiction. The goal of Heroin Highway is to serve as an extremely effective tool to educate, empower and slow down the current heroin epidemic facing America.

A campaign, on funding website Indegogo.com, has been launched to help finance the making of the film. For those donating, a variety of options have been posted, including the ability of donors to have a name included in the film or even a short video that could pay tribute to someone who has experience the struggles of drug addiction.

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About Maryann DeLeo
Maryann DeLeo has been working in documentary filmmaking for over thirty years. She has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, 2 National Emmy Awards, a National Cable Ace Award and the prestigious du-Pont Columbia for excellence. Her noted works have been broadcast on NBC’s Today Show and HBO, among others.

About Richie Farrell
Richie Farrell is a writer, filmmaker. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, he has written a Bestseller, a memoir and is currently working as a screenwriter. He has been nominated for a National Cable Ace Award and received the prestigious du-Pont Columbia award for excellence.

About Isabel Vega
Isabel Vega, born in Colombia, received her BA in film studies from Wesleyan University. In 2008, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her film La Corona (The Crown.) She also co-directed the documentary series, I Can Change the World, with Maryann Deleo.

Producer Joey Spanos , Executive Producers Brian Bradbury and Ron Garza, Associate Producer Mark Hendrick.