With the advancement of digital technologies, film-making had become an accessible medium of expression for anyone with a vision: Written by a high school freshman, shot on miniDV, and created with digital cameras and home-based computers, Purgatory House marked the true beginning of the digital revolution in 2001. From what it revealed about the pressures and struggles that plague our troubled youth, to the cutting-edge technologies that helped create it, Purgatory House is and continues to be uniquely a sign of our times.