The Brooklyn-based writer-director and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts made his feature directorial debut on the indie drama Union County and promptly received what could be the best news of his career thus far: He got into the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City. Union County is adapted from his own short film of the same name (which had a world premiere in Berlin) and follows a young man, Cody Parsons, through a county-mandated drug court program in rural Ohio as he walks a winding path of recovery amid the opioid epidemic.
Addiction, and the opioid crisis, has been well-documented on screen but Meeks and his Union County team bring something fresh to the genre courtesy of the real-life participants of the Ohio drug court and its presiding judge, all of whom appear throughout.
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