Welcome to the InCase Video series. To watch the video series you must have a password provided to you by your instructor. The series is a part of a professional / educational offering from InCase and Touchpoint Productions.
Welcome to Recovery Café is a documentary that reveals that good nutrition, connection, and community are antidotes to isolation, loneliness, and relapse. Recovery Café is a refuge of hope and healing where transformation is on the menu every day. It’s a place where people who have been ignored and not valued are given loving attention and valued. Recovery Café is not a drop in or a crisis center, it is a membership organization where people are not only loved and valued but discover that they are a source of love and transformation which contributes to the healing of others. It’s a place where people come back to life!
Home Boy Joy Ride is a documentary about the living model of community and transformation. Capturing Father Gregory Boyle’s mission, it is the starting point on a joy ride that takes people suffering from isolation, and marginalization to heaven on earth. Home Boy Industries is the largest gang abatement program in the world helping formerly incarcerated individuals. come together to heal themselves and each other and rebuild their communities by finding meaning and purpose. You have to see it to believe it because this place is a miracle factory.
Stand Down
This documentary captures the powerful and lasting impact that a Stand Down has on the homeless Veterans that attend and the volunteers who make it work. You must listen to the voices of the Homeless Warriors to begin to understand the dire urgency and love that started the heartbeat of this Veteran run event and continues to beat today across the nation.
Journeys on the Red Road is a documentary film produced with Salish Tribes of the Pacific Northwest. The word journey connotes the interior quest for the meaning of one’s life. Profound spiritual experiences usually come after great loss and a massive dose of humility. The film navigates the rough and treacherous waters of addiction recovery on a journey of healing. Through ceremony, tradition, and culture these people are brought back to the circle of life that is the Canoe Journey.
Soul Sanctuary is a documentary film about Beit T’Shuvah, a long- term treatment facility/ synagogue with a philosophy that substance use disorders are a spiritual disorder somewhat like a hole in the soul. Through Torah study, therapy, community engagement the residents find meaning and purpose which serves people with substance use disorders. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it is community and connection and it takes faith which is a daily action. Faith is not a noun, it’s a verb.
JustUs is the story of a family in northern New Mexico trying to minister to their community during an epidemic of fentanyl addiction and political corruption. As overdose deaths increase Hermano Pedro feels the call to serve his community by ministering to the people to face their long term issues with grief and loss. With no detox facilities in this Valley of Tears he puts forward a community petition to the governor to establish an emergency field hospital to treat their critical needs. With no response from the governor and the onset of Covid he invites a curandera to help with building a sweat lodge and invites families to work through their emotional, physical, and spiritual traumas.