SHUFFLE | New Mexico Premiere and Q&A with Director
Schedule
Thu Sep 18 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Historic Lobo Theater & Event Center | Albuquerque, NM

About this Event
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at SXSW 2025
Join us for an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary SHUFFLE, an intimate look inside the billion-dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick.
After the film, meet director Benjamin Flaherty for a post-screening Q&A.
Free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, registration recommended to secure your seat.
“Almost biblical in its depiction of well-intended policies being corrupted by human avarice” - IndieWire
“...inherently shattering and enraging" -Variety
This event is possible thanks to the support of New Mexico Leaders in Recovery, New Mexico Peer Coalition, The Pines Institute and the UNM Collegiate Recovery Center.
Director’s Statement
The participants in Shuffle trusted us in their most vulnerable moments with their most intimate truths. The film belongs to them. It is their story. I was the listener, the facilitator, the amplifier. My background as a person in recovery deeply informed my approach. I recognized the coded language of survival and the defensive humor in our subjects’ voices. My goal was to craft a narrative that refused to flatten them into victims or heroes, and instead allowed their contradictions to remain intact. Directing SHUFFLE was an act of witness, accountability, and ultimately love.
Learn more about the film and impact campaing #stoptheshuffle: https://www.stoptheshuffle.com/impact
Where is it happening?
Historic Lobo Theater & Event Center, 3013 Central Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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