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Living with Addiction: On screen... and off

Substance abuse specialists look at the classic Otto Preminger film The Man with the Golden Arm and discuss the evolution of addiction, its portrayal in movies and in the real world.

  • Vilan Trub
    Director
    The Dirty Kind
  • Vilan Trub
    Producer
    The Dirty Kind
  • Andrew Steiner
    Key Cast
    "Self - Narrator"
  • Dair Melendez-Drier
    Key Cast
    "Self - Interviewee"
  • Andrew Matthews
    Key Cast
    "Self - Interviewee"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 20, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Vilan Trub

Vilan Trub was born in 1987 in Queens, New York, to immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union. He began his career at 18 working on hip hop music videos for artists like 50 Cent and quickly progressed to filming his own no-budget movies around the Forest Hills and Rego Park neighborhoods in Queens. Trub is currently a senior producer for Insider.

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Director Statement

Certain stories are timeless and when you marry those stories to the techniques that make the best movies the best movies, what you get is zeitgeist.