Cinema in Sync: Tipping the Pain Scale

Join us for Cinema In Sync: Film, Fellowship, and Connection Series Screenings—a recovery-focused film series featuring stories of hope, resilience, transformation, and change. Each screening, presented in partnership by ArtsQuest and Sync Recovery Community, explores recovery through film, sparking conversation, challenging stigma, and highlighting the power of recovery in individuals, families, and communities.

Following each film, stay for an optional talk back with guest panelists. This supportive space offers an opportunity to share your thoughts, ask questions, connect with others, or simply listen as we continue the conversation around recovery.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

To support the spirit of Cinema in Sync, the theater hosting the film series will be maintained as a dedicated alcohol-free space. Alcohol may be available for purchase elsewhere throughout ArtsQuest Campus at SteelStacks and the ArtsQuest Center.

ADMISSION

Free and open to the public, though tickets are required. For your free tickets to Tipping the Pain Scale, click HERE.

Addiction isn’t a choice. Compassion is.

TIPPING THE PAIN SCALE is a feature documentary film following individuals grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction in communities and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often controversial solutions to the problem. It is a quasi-anthology, weaving characters through their own stories as they connect to the issues plaguing all communities and the country in an urgent fight to save lives.

Featuring Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh; NFL Pro Bowl Player, Darren Waller; Spoken Word Artist and Educator Joseph Green; WA State Representative, Lauren Davis; Community Outreach Volunteer, Roz Pichardo; and Boston Police Officer Josh De La Rosa, with Music from Sia.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tnoz616ex0

Moderated by Richard Liu, Sync Recovery Community volunteer and ArtsQuest Performing Arts Board Member.

Talk-Back Panelists:
Bill Stauffer, LSW, PMAC, PECS, Executive Director of Pennsylvania Recovery Organization Alliance (PRO-A)