Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all our good intentions, we go on getting fatter and fatter.
Writing
Tortorich's unapologetic narration weaponizes personal story against institutional failure.
Editing
Rapid-fire infographics that make nutritional biochemistry weirdly gripping.
Director
Peter Curtis Pardini
Jim Abrahams
Self - Father / Founder, Charlie Foundation / Filmmaker
Vinnie Tortorich
Self - Narrator / Producer / Trainer / Author
Bret Scher
Self - Cardiologist
Gary Taubes
Self - Journalist / Author
Eric Westman
Self - Internal Medicine Doctor
Drew Pinsky
Self - Physician
Georgia Ede
Self - Psychiatrist
Jeffry Gerber
Self - Physician
George McGovern
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film rode the 2019 keto wave, capitalizing on a moment when mainstream skepticism of low-fat dogma hit critical mass.
Vinnie Tortorich built his entire brand on being 'Hollywood's trainer'—the documentary doubles as infomercial for his No Sugar No Grains empire.
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