Fed Up
Description
An emphasis on hot-button topics, including the obesity epidemic as well as a larger look at the obstacles to healthier lifestyles thrown up by the food industry, place cowriter/director Stephanie Soechtig’s Fed Up firmly in the subgenre of cautionary documentaries that includes Food Inc. and Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. Soechtig and her creative team, including co-writer Mark Monroe and narrator and executive producer Katie Couric, trace the obesity crisis to 1977 when a new set of government dietary guidelines offered a flawed nutrition model based on calories in and calories out without taking other factors—such as the harm caused by sugar—into consideration. Using lively graphics, timely archival clips and multiple interviews, Soechtig charts how food industry politics, money and lobbying muscle have acted in concert to determine America’s nutritional choices. A pointed, issues-oriented documentary, Fed Up makes complex science and vague politics accessible and engaging as it answers big questions regarding the food industry and shows how its influence has expanded waistlines while compromising health. –Steve Ramos
Stephanie Soechtig is a veteran producer of documentary shorts for network news shows including Primetime Live and 20/20, as well as Fox News talk show The O’Reilly Factor. The co-founder of Santa Monica-based production house Atlas Films credits the 1991 PBS documentary Diet for a New America, about the negative impact of factory farming and processed food production, as a source of inspiration for her long-form, sociopolitical projects. Soechtig’s commitment to films that pull back the curtain on environmental crises include the ABC miniseries Planet Earth and Tapped, her 2009 documentary about the bottled water industry and its environmental impact.
Trailer
//player.vimeo.com/video/93671772?autoplay=1Film Details
Language English
Year 2014
Runtime 90
Country USA
Director Stephanie Soechtig
Producer Eva Marson, Sarah Olson, Stephane Soechtig
Editor Brian Lazarte, Tina Nguyen, Dan Swietlik
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