Lucky Ducks

In a society where "celebutantes" like Paris Hilton dominate newsstands and models who weigh less than 90 pounds die from malnutrition, female body image is one of the more dire problems facing today's society. "America the Beautiful" illuminates the issue by covering every base. Child models, plastic surgery, celebrity worship, airbrushed advertising, dangerous cosmetics - no rock is left unturned.

This is a Dutch documentary about the last weeks of life in a Portuguese clinic for Emma Caris, a 18 year old girl who had been suffering anorexia nervosa since she was 16 years old.

Documentary about eating disorders among professional climbers

Gegijzeld door Anorexia

Based on 'Frank Kafka"s Metamorphose story, the documentary presents 2 metamorphosis of the present society: anorexia, as an disruption of our self-perception; depression, as an isolating illness ; and physically handicapped conditions, as mobility problems.

The story of Isabelle Caro, Oliviero Toscani's NO-Anorexia model who rose to fame after his campaign. Diving through different passages of time, with the aid of family photos as well as video diaries left behind, we see a kaleidoscope of Isabelle's life and the world that surrounded her.

Two young married adults with differing eating disorders share their experiences, insights, and stories of struggles, social expectations, misconceptions, and recovery.

What does it feel like to have a panic attack? In this animated short from our Arts x Radio collaboration, Vancouver-based filmmaker and illustrator Karla Monterrosa animates a clip from CBC Radio'sCampus to imagine what it's like inside an 18-year-old's mind and body during her first attack.

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.

2-part portrait of a girl suffering from anorexia and bulimia.

Nikki is a plus size model who hits the streets of Chicago to ask questions and find answers about the distorted views of plus-size and size zero models. Through her journey she learns some truths about the demands of losing weight and the struggles of anorexia within the modeling community.

A Calling Void is a short documentary-drama that sheds light on the complexity of emotion, distortions of reality and desperate needs for control a young woman encounters during her struggle with anorexia. Limited screenings in Vancouver are pending further festival submissions.

A young filmmaker struggles with her mental illness as she makes a documentary with the author Fiona Wright, and challenges her to express her experience with anorexia by preforming of one of her poems.

The animated documentary shows a day in life of a person suffering a mental illness called anorexia nervosa. It is an intimate insight into the mind of an anorexic, who must somehow interact with raw reality.

This documentary tells the story of Deborah whom suffered from anorexia.

Comedian Chelsea Tolle tells her story of battling anorexia and addiction to chase her dream.

O Peso Que Carrego

Isabelle Pilling struggles with anorexia and learns to overcome her demons and embrace her life.

At sixteen years old Peter Czerwinski was hospitalized and nearly died as a result of anorexia. Seven years later, not only has he won that battle, he is one the greatest competitive eaters in the world. This is the inspiring (and ironic story) of Furious Pete.

"As far back as I can remember I've never been hungry". That's how begins the autobiographical story of a man - the movie maker himself - who reports both the anorexia nervosa that he went through as a child, then as a teenager, and the difficult relationship that, as an adult, he's been sustaining with foodstuff, or with the mere act of ingesting solid food.