We follow a patient taking part in the world's first true xenotransplant trial as doctors implant insulin producing cells from pigs into the abdomens of eight patients in an attempt to cure their diabetes. These aren't just any pigs though, they have spent 150 years isolated on a tiny group of inhospitable islands near the Antarctic and are the cleanest mammals on earth. They were found and saved from extermination by chance and are now housed in a purpose built facility.
What's On Your Plate? is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics.
Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows two eleven-year-old multi-racial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah take a close look at food systems in New York City and its surrounding areas. With the camera as their companion, the girl guides talk to each other, food activists, farmers, new friends, storekeepers, their families, and the viewer, in their quest to understand what's on all of our plates.
Diabetes is emerging as one of the most serious health problems of our time - a global epidemic claiming more lives each year than HIV/AIDS.
Children with diabetes in the developing world are particularly vulnerable. Many lack access to proper care and life saving medicines. Some become chronically ill; many die quickly, while others develop severe complications such as kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage.
Untill now, there are few filmed patients testimonies about the way to lived the diabetes. The initial idea of this project was to realize a video centred on the diabetic patient , in aid of patients entering the disease. This film has been realized on the basis of standardized interviews of diabetics patients . The choice of twelve questions has been defined in a collective way, to target a big part of the problems met by this population of patients, and on the other hand to be understood without ambig¸ités by the patients during the shooting.
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