The Kids Are Not Alright

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 93 min
  • Premiere: 2024. December 7.

Despite decades of documented abuse and hundreds of deaths, thousands of teenagers across the United States are held in cultlike reform programs that generate multibillion-dollar profits with little to no government oversight. Told through the personal lens of three families' journeys through what's come to be known as the "troubled teen industry," THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT is an intimate portrait of trauma and what it means to survive that asks if healing is possible in the absence of justice.

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Directing

Mikaela Shwer

Director

Editing

Production

Hannah Jain

Associate Producer

Robyn Kopp

Producer

Kate Logan

Producer

Alana Maiello

Producer

John Henry Hinkel

Co-Executive Producer

Alexandra Marske

Co-Producer

Andrew Ostapchenko

Co-Executive Producer

Mikaela Shwer

Producer

Andrew Thibault

Associate Producer

Sound

Directing

Mikaela Shwer

Director

Editing

Production

Hannah Jain

Associate Producer

Robyn Kopp

Producer

Kate Logan

Producer

Alana Maiello

Producer

John Henry Hinkel

Co-Executive Producer

Alexandra Marske

Co-Producer

Andrew Ostapchenko

Co-Executive Producer

Mikaela Shwer

Producer

Andrew Thibault

Associate Producer

Sound