Trailer Tease:
http://vimeo.com/14194313
If you are a former student or employee of a program affiliate with WWASPS, KIDS, Straight or any similar program and would like to be interviewed for this documentary, please contact : theprogramdocumentary@gmail.com
Who's Watching The Kids? There are more than 30 privately run schools for troubled youth operating in the state of Montana. They employ more than 600 people and pump an estimated 4 million into the state income taxes. It's an exploding industry, but strangely, most Montanans have no idea the schools even exist. In this hour-long documentary, MontanaPBS explores a lucrative industry praised for its novel approach to reforming youth, yet shrouded in disturbing allegations of abuse and neglect. (First Aired Thursday, September 14, 2006)Aaron Bacon, is a 2009 drama film about the death of Aaron Bacon and is based on the true story of the 16-year-old boy's death as a result of malpractice and abuse in a tough love wilderness drug treatment facility. Inspired by the book Help at Any Cost by Maia Szalavitz the film is directed by Nick Gaglia (Over the GW). It has completed principle filming and is in post production.
Boot Camp is a 2007 psychological suspense thriller feature film written by Agatha Dominik and John Cox and directed by Christian Duguay. The film is based upon on true events; it is about teenagers sent to a rehabilitation camp (in Fiji) who are then abused and brainwashed.[2]
Director: Liam Scheff
Surviving Cedu,” tells the story of a half-dozen teenagers who were each sent to the Cedu School, variously described to them as a standard boarding school, a wilderness adventure school, or a therapeutic learning environment in the Western mountains of the United States. But the experience of the school was something entirely different. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. Relationships at the school between students - and staff - seemed to have little formal structure or sense of normal boundary - and a student’s life was always under threat of intense and unpredictable disciplining and punishment.