FAT: A Documentary
The last documentary about fat you'll ever need to see.
2019 · 1h 35m · N/A Documentary
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jim Abrahams as Self - Father / Founder, Charlie Foundation / Filmmaker
- Vinnie Tortorich as Self - Narrator / Producer / Trainer / Author
- Bret Scher as Self - Cardiologist
- Gary Taubes as Self - Journalist / Author
- Dave Feldman as Self - Software Engineer
- Eric Westman as Self - Internal Medicine Doctor
- Andreas Eenfeldt as Self - Physician
- Drew Pinsky as Self - Physician
- Dr. Georgia Ede as Self - Psychiatrist
- Nina Teicholz as Self - Journalist
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