“Alcohol overuse accounts for an approximate $2.4 billion dollar impact on our economy yearly.” –Recover Alaska
“Earnest Drinker” is a new hybrid documentary film project by Scott Burton and his team of collaborators. A hybrid documentary combines elements of traditional documentaries like interviews with experts, with creative stuff we see in narrative and fictional films like dream sequences and animation.
Through his own 30-year relationship with alcohol, and through the stories of drinkers and medical providers, the film will offer space and a deeper vocabulary to explore society’s relationship with alcohol and sobriety.
Topics will include why we drink, why we stop, why we maintain sobriety, the spectrum of alcohol use, and the baggage and stigma attached to terms like alcoholic. “Earnest Drinker” will endeavor to take a creative, entertaining, and fair-minded look at relationships with drinking.
“Earnest Drinker” is in the planning and fundraising phase and has begun production. A tentative release date is scheduled for the fall of 2023. A majority of the crew, associated artists, and interviewees will be from Alaska, which is home to some of the nation’s highest rates of alcohol-related abuses. Recover Alaska reports that alcohol overuse accounts for an approximate $2.4 billion dollar impact on our economy yearly.
The team is honored and thankful to produce “Earnest Drinker” among the people, mountains, trees and waterways of Lingít Aaní. Earnest Drinker is a Recover Alaska grantee, and a partner with the Juneau Community Foundation and the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. The film will be Burton’s fourth documentary.
The total budget for the documentary is $218,000. Fundraising began with a $50,000 in-kind contribution from Authentimedia, the film’s production company. The remaining $168,000 will be raised from crowdfunding, and you.
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