Award-Winning Recovery Documentary Starring Tawny and B. Rae

FIXED UP WON “BEST HOPE FILM” AT THE 2018 NEW JERSEY RECOVERY FILM FESTIVAL!

Fixed up was also featured in the 2018

NYC REEL Recovery Film Festival.

We met The Situation!

Shout out to Road Recovery for taking this photos and from sponsoring our trip to Jersey!

Speaking on the Recovery and the Arts Panel

About the Doc

This short documentary, Fixed Up, follows Tawny Lara (founder of SobrieTea Party) and B.Rae Perryman, as they discuss their past issues with substance abuse and mental illness. They open up to share personal stories of depression, anxiety, insecurities, and how they work hard every day to overcome these challenges by living a sober lifestyle.

Press Release:

Recovery Documentary, Fixed Up

This film explores the evolution of two women in recovery.

New York City - January 11, 2018

This short documentary follows two sober women, B.Rae Perryman and Tawny Lara, as they discuss their past issues with substance abuse and mental illness. They both open up to share their personal stories of depression, anxiety, insecurities, and how they work hard every day to overcome these challenges by living a sober lifestyle.

Both B. Rae and Tawny are from the same hometown of Waco, Texas, but they never met face to face until they collaborated on this documentary. Coming from common backgrounds, both women serve the recovery community in drastically different ways. Tawny is a blogger who writes about being sober in New York City in her blog, SobrieTea Party, and hosts an NYC based reading series, Readings on Recovery. B. Rae is an advocate for reforming drug policy and therapeutic arts engagements in Washington D.C.

This film also features perspectives from B. Rae’s friends (Casey Shepard and Joseph Roberts), Tawny’s father/heavy metal musician (Dave Starr), and licensed therapist (Megan Torres). Tawny and B.Rae collaborated on this film to shine a light on the typically dark, stigmatized subjects of substance abuse and addiction. This video essay is recommended for anyone interested in the lives of two recovering party girls from the “Fixer Upper” town of Waco, Texas and the sober lives they now live on the East Coast.