29 Oct 2021
Hospital(ity) Chronicles
Through family archives, drawings, animations and performances that draw on her long experience with illness, Brigitte Lacasse takes an incisive, critical look at the Quebec health care system.
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…
Top Billed Cast
Nina Teicholz Self - Journalist
Dominique Dupagne Self - Medical Journalist
Harvey Levenstein Self - Food Historian
Gary Taubes Self - Scientific Journalist
Henry Blackburn Self - Epidemiologist
Michel de Lorgeril Self - Cardiologist
Uffe Ravnskov Self - Physician
Sylvain Duval Self - Nutritionist
Frank Pfrieger Self - Neuroscientist
Sally Fallon Morell Self - Nutritionist
Kilmer McCully Self - Pathologist
Cristin Kearns Self - Medical Researcher
Jeremy Green Self - Medical Historian
Mikael Rabaeus Self - Cardiologist
John Abramson Self - Medicine Professor
Beatrice Collomb Self - Medicine Professor
Ancel Keys Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)
Margaret Keys Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)
Jules Bergman Self - Scientific Journalist (archive footage)
William Castelli Self - Physician (archive footage)
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