A documentary focusing on the prevalence of disordered eating and eating disorders among dancers.
What lies behind a perfect body? Have you got this just playing sports? In this film we show an underworld of illegal substances, uncontrolled consumption of them and the obsession to have a muscular body. Because vigorexia affects more people than anorexia and bulimia, but is much less known.
'Ugly' is a film that follows Colton Clements, a young man who goes on a journey to discover the emotional and psychological effects the media and advertising has over women. Colton sets out to discover why the media pushes an image of the 'perfect' woman, and what effect this image has on the mindsets of women who are exposed to it. On his journey he meets and interviews a modeling consultant, an anorexia survivor, a therapist, and 'America's Next Top Model' Cycle Ten winner, the plus-sized model Whitney Thompson.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
Documentary about eating disorders among professional climbers
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.
Marked by childhood trauma, three women from different generations living with an eating disorder try to get back to life.
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Geoff, a man with an unusual compulsion to eat inedible objects, calls on the unorthodox services of backstreet practitioner Doctor Dora in order to cure his ailment.
Personal stories taken from a survey on how women's lives are affected by a culture obsessed with body image and thinness.
Heidi, the star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch, The Walrus, is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
Ken's an inveterate womanizer who joins an all female body image support group to put the moves on Talia, a young woman with an eating disorder.
Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.
Benji is sent spiraling into a storm of self doubt after matching with a girl who is out of his league. A short film about body dysmorphia.
A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression
Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.