American Addiction

I recently had the privilege to watch American Addiction at a screening in San Diego, California. I was very inspired by the film. I'm an aspiring filmmaker and this film really takes me behind the scenes of the emotions involved in the film-making process. They had a Q&A after the screening and was very impressed when i found out that the film was shot under a 100k. It looks like a at least a quarter million dollar film. At first I wasn't going to watch the film because I thought it was just another one of them low budget South Asian films. I have an Indian friend and he has showed me a couple and they were really bad. The synopsis attracted me though and I decided to check it out. First of all even though most of the actors were South Asian there was no stereotype. It had a universal theme which any culture could relate too. The only negative criticism I have on it is that the first 20 mins. moved kinda slow. The editing could be tightened up too. Overall though good luck to the filmmakers cause they should be proud of what they have accomplished!