Sugar Coated Explained

Sugar Coated
Director:Michèle Hozer
Producer:Janice Dawe
Music:Russell Walker
Editing:Michèle Hozer
Studio:The Cutting Factory
Distributor:TVOntario
Runtime:91 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:English

Sugar Coated is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michèle Hozer and released in 2015.[1] The film explores the impact on human health of the heavy use of sugar in the contemporary diet.[2]

The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2015,[3] and was screened at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival before screening on TVOntario and at selected other documentary film festivals.[4]

The film won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[5]

Notes and References

  1. "Sugar Coated is not all sweetness and light; Documentary blames sugar industry for many of our health problems". Montreal Gazette, August 21, 2015.
  2. "Truth about sugar anything but sweet". Winnipeg Free Press, May 30, 2015.
  3. http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/hot-docs-2015-reshaping-reality "Hot Docs 2015: Reshaping Reality"
  4. "'Sugar Coated' documentary explores health dangers of sweets". Canadian Press, April 23, 2015.
  5. https://www.tribute.ca/news/first-winners-at-the-canadian-screen-awards-2016/2016/03/09/ "First winners at the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards"