214: The Making of Clean Slate with Jared Callahan
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A lot of us resonate with movies because we get to learn about the world through them. Making movies is hard enough. Now, imagine a documentary of someone making a movie during their rehab journey.
On today’s episode, Duane speaks with Jared Callahan about his new feature-length documentary. Clean Slate provides an immersive, veritate look into the world of recovery amid the biggest drug epidemic in American history. It follows two individuals Cassidy and Josh, as they attempt to make a short film during their recovery and rehab state.
Jared is an award-winning director, producer, and founder of Emmy-nominated production company The People People Media Foundation. Based on a 95-acre farm in the San Francisco East Bay, they specialize in personal and unique stories that help give others a voice.
In making this documentary, Jared had to spend 18 months at a recovery facility that he got completely enveloped in their world. He hopes the film would move people the way he has been deeply touched by it. Hopefully, it will change how people view and treat addiction – giving more grace and developing more empathy for people struggling with it, instead of condemning them and stereotyping their condition like it’s a crime or a disease.
In this episode, you will hear:
- How Clean Slate came to be and why Jared accepted the project
- Lessons Jared learned about addiction and recovery while making this film
- The experience of being immersed in a recovery facility
- Battling the powerlessness of being a documentary filmmaker
- The process of making the film
- Understanding the different cultures in the world of recovery
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful day. We are on to the next episode of the Addicted Mind podcast. My name is Dwayne Austerlund and I'm your host. Today our guest is Jared Callahan. He is an award-winning director and producer. He founded and runs People People Media and Emmy-nominated production company based on a 95-acre farm in the San Francisco East Bay that specializes in personal and unique stories that help give others a voice and increase empathy. |
| 0:38.5 | His work has been released through the New York Times, PBS, GQ Magazine, The Atlantic. |
| 0:43.8 | He's had projects premiere at the best film festivals in the world, including Sundance, |
| 0:48.8 | South by Southwest, and the Tribeca Film Festival. |
| 0:52.6 | Jared has served as one of the Atlanta Film Society's |
| 0:56.2 | filmmakers in residence and produced the River is Reg which played over 100 festivals, won |
| 1:03.4 | 43 awards and qualified for the 2019 Academy Awards in two categories. |
| 1:09.6 | And today we're going to talk about his new documentary Clean Slate. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a feature-length documentary that provides an immersive verity look into the world of |
| 1:19.7 | recovery amid the biggest drug epidemic in American history. |
| 1:23.0 | It's about two individuals, Cassidy and Josh, as they attempt to make a short film during their recovery and rehab stay. |
| 1:32.2 | So Jared is going to talk about how the documentary Clean Slate came to be, how it was first formed, and how he decided to take on this project after being approached by one of the main subjects, |
| 1:47.3 | Cassidy, who wanted help of making a short film and how they put that all together and what |
| 1:54.5 | he learned about addiction and recovery in making clean slate. It's a great story. The movie's awesome. |
| 2:02.0 | Definitely recommend everyone watch it. |
| 2:05.0 | I think you'll get a lot out of it. |
| 2:06.7 | It really shows recovery in a very real and empathetic way. |
| 2:12.6 | So I hope you enjoy this episode with Jared. |
| 2:17.3 | And if you're enjoying the Addicted Mind podcast, |
| 2:20.3 | please think about writing a review in iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. I really do |
| 2:25.9 | appreciate it. I read them. They mean a lot to me to know that the Addicted Mind podcast |
| 2:30.9 | is having a positive impact. So for everyone who's done that, thank you very much. |
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