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OPI STUDENTS MAKE FILM
by Anne LaRiviere,
Admissions Director
Optimum Performance Institute
888-558-0617
anne@opiliving.com
www.opiliving.com
When Los Angeles film-maker Marty Sader's independent film
"Most High" took the top award at last year's Hampton
International Film Festival, his prize included all the tools
he needed to make his next movie.
Now Sader, who is also a mentor to young adults at the Optimum
Performance Institute (OPI), is working on his next film and
using some of this valuable prize to help young adults in
OPI's Film Lab make a short film of their own "as a learning
tool to help them feel a sense of accomplishment."
Sader will present "Most High" at a private screening
to Educational Consultants and others attending the IECA Spring
Conference in Denver. It will be followed by a discussion
with Sader, the film's co-producer Tom Adams and Robert F.
Fischer, MD, OPI's executive director.
"Most High", was produced by 2nd Act Films, a company
comprised of Sader, his wife and writing partner Laura Keys
and producer Kenyon Robertson. It is a gut-wrenching examination
of the epidemic of substance abuse, an intimate portrait of
a young man's journey through addiction and his vain attempt
to placate the aching void he feels inside. The film stars
Sader, Keys and Robertson who spent seven years searching
for the truth at the heart of addiction. It also includes
interviews with addicts and former addicts.
Sader's bodyweight fluctuated more than 200 pounds during
the course of the film in order to portray the physical effects
of crystal methamphetamine abuse "Most High" was
shot backwards with production beginning at the end of the
film in August 2001, with an emaciated Sader showing the effects
of crystal meth abuse. It was completed in April 2003 featuring
a slightly overweight Sader at the beginning of the film.
The Optimum Performance Institute is a therapeutic residential
program for 17-25-year-olds in Woodland Hills, CA. The OPI
Film Lab is a four-month-long course in which participants
make their own film, and in the process, learn the importance
of achieving individual goals, creative solutions, time management
and accepting responsibility while contributing to their collective
success.
Copyright © 2005,
Woodbury Reports, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
(This article may not be reproduced without written approval
of the publisher.)
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