Gooned

Gooned is a Shorty, Shorty Impact, and W3 award winning, Webby and two-time Ambies nominated (among others) deep dive into an industry with blood on its hands. The Troubled Teen Industry (TTI) is a network of profit-incentivized behavior modification facilities for youth, ranging from wilderness programs to therapeutic boarding schools. The decades-old industry uses predatory tactics to capitalize on families in crisis and victimize hundreds of thousands of children and teens every year.

My aim with the trailer was to introduce the visceral discomfort felt by the survivors of the TTI in a textural way, using lots of found and archival tape as a backbone for the first point of contact for the audience.

To hear more of the series produced by Emma Lehman, go to goonedpodcast.com.