All of Me: a story of love, loss and last resorts

Images

the "girls"

Website

http://www.allofmethemovie.com/

Topics

Health: Disease/treatment, Nutrition/Malnutrition
Human Rights: Disability, Sexuality, Social Exclusion

Identity Niches

Disability Culture, Senior/Aging, Women

Budget

Raised to date: $25,000.00
Estimate to complete: $200,000.00
Total Estimated Budget: $225,000.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 03/15/2009

Status

Production

Media Type

Video

Project End Use

TV

Key Personnel

Alexandra Lescaze
Producer/Director

Alexandra Lescaze is the producer/director/writer of the feature documentary film, Where Do You Stand? stories from an American mill. Alexandra was the Associate Producer of Lisa F. Jackson’s The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, winner of the Special Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance 2008, broadcast on HBO in April 2008, and distributed by Women Make Movies. Concurrently, she was the Executive Producer of Workin’ It, a talk radio show about workers’ rights on Air America Radio, hosted by Jackie Guerra who had recently had gastric bypass surgery. Today, Alexandra is the Executive Director of The Sidney Hillman Foundation, administering annual awards to journalists, photographers, writers and bloggers whose work supports social and economic justice.

Deborah Eve Lewis
Director of Photography
Deb has shot many documentary films including, most recently, the Texas portion of Roger Weisberg’s Critical Condition, POV 2008; With God On Our Side, David Van Taylor & Calvin Scaggs, Channel 4; and Last Man Standing:Politics, Texas-Style, Paul Stekler, POV 2004. She is based in Austin, TX.

Jennifer Fineran
Editor
Jen’s most recent editorial work, A Powerful Noise, screened at the 2008 Tribecca Film Festival. She hasmore than 10 years editing work that can be seen on many networks including PBS, MTV,IFC, AMC, Bravo, Lifetime, National Geographic and the Travel Channel

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

There is obviously a huge audience (and advertiser interest) for anything to do with weight loss as evidenced by the incredible surge of weight-loss reality shows like The Biggest Loser and the segments on dailies like Oprah and The Today Show. But how many of these have any depth at all?? Millions of women, mothers, homemakers, homeworkers, intellectual, working women, i.e. ALL OF US who watch our weight and/or struggle with obesity and disordered eating ourselves, feel feelings we don’t necessarily want to feel about other peoples’ weight, probably have an obese person in our family or worklife who we love and/or are concerned about, or are just interested in body image and how the ideals are constructed and sold to us by advertisers and media, we will all find something in ALL OF ME.

Every mother of a daughter must see this film.

The film will reach the widest possible audience, and have the greatest impact, if it is brought to people on their home television sets. It would be a stark departure from the reality game shows and headless fatties on the nightly news. A primetime broadcast would set the stage for multi-faceted grassroots outreach efforts, in support groups, homes, communities, workplaces, medical schools, and Congress, to promote good science and model programs that promote health and therapeutic support as opposed to weight loss by any means necessary.

Women Make Movies is the film’s fiscal sponsor. WMM is the leading distributor of women's films in North America whose films are shown in media arts centers, museums, television, theaters, libraries, and universities and are used by thousands of educational customers and community groups throughout the United States and the world.

In addition to broadcast, I plan to take the film to film festivals and on the road throughout the country with community groups and local and national organizations doing work around obesity and eating disorder prevention. There is no effective weight loss strategy. Prevention is all we have. Prevention must be community-based, targeted, and guided by a socio-cultural perspective. It must reach mothers and girls. To this end, I am partnering with organizations focused on WLS education and support, as well as those focused on obesity and eating disorder prevention. ALL OF ME will help put a human face on obesity and the struggle to lose weight and draw attention to the work these grassroots educators and experts are doing.

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