Special Event
Fed Up
Friday, July 25, 8:00pm
Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center, Oak Bluffs
With producers Katie Couric & Laurie David, and director Stephanie Soechtig
Following a group of children for more than two years, director Stephanie Soechtig intimately documents their uphill battle to heed the conventional wisdom--“diet and exercise”--but is this “mission impossible” for the youth of America? Newscaster Katie Couric guides us through this eye-opening film that exposes the food industry and chronicles the lives of three obese children struggling to lose life-threatening weight. In riveting interviews with the country's leading experts, Fed Up lays bare a decades-long misinformation campaign orchestrated by “Big Ag” and aided and abetted by the U.S. government--the result of which is one of the largest health epidemics in history.