Eat Your Catfish (2021)
24-hour care for Kathryn--a mother and wife in New York in the late stages of ALS--has nearly bankrupted her family and left their relations entangled in grief, resentment and guilt. Looking out from Kathryn's wheelchair, this feature documentary explores the unresolved fissures of an American family confronting overwhelming hardship.
Supported by the
Catapult Film Fund,
Cinereach,
Field of Vision, and the
Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Selected to the
2020 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket (under the working title 'Caring for Kathryn'), and
Meetings on the Bridge at the Istanbul Film Festival, where it received the Cine Chromatix Post-Production Award.
As fiscal sponsor, the
International Documentary Association can process tax-deductible donations to this project.
EatYourCatfish.com
WORLD SALES:
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Gottschedstr. 18
04109 Leipzig
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)341 2156638
Email: info [at] deckert-distribution.com
IDFA Envision Competition
REVIEWS:
Variety: A Family Is Divided by ALS in an Uncompromising, Emotionally Raw Documentary
Screen International: Inside the life of Kathryn, locked into a fixed position due to ALS but never static
Business Doc Europe: An astonishingly open, moving, funny and challenging insight into the world of a woman paralysed but with her mind intact
UniversalCinema: There is a life worth living through ALS when you find a purpose
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