The Famine Within

Directed by Katherine Gilday

Canada, 1990 (documentary, 120 minutes, colour, English)

Film Description:
"Using conventional documentary interviews and narration, complemented with striking evocative imagery, Gilday presents a wide cross section of women relating their own experiences with these disturbing conditions. [...] Among many of the perceptive observations in this film, it is suggested that these [eating] disorders are a desperate, if unconscious, protest against the denial of the feminine within both men and women."
-- Festival of Festivals (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Katherine Gilday
Produced by:	Katherine Gilday
Cinematography:	Joan Hutton, Barry Stone
Film Editing:	Petra Valier
Music:	Russell Walker

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Award won by The Famine Within

Genie Award: Best Feature Length Documentary -- awarded to Katherine Gilday

Notes about The Famine Within

Shown at the Festival of Festivals (Toronto) in 1990.

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Quote by the Director

"Why are we so focused on our bodies and our looks? This preoccupation drains much of women's energies and self esteem. It's drained mine, too. We have to make a conscious effort to fight it."
-- Katherine Gilday (source)

Bibliography for The Famine Within

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Dineen, Janice. "Women's bodies: A painful obsession; Toronto filmmaker explores the emptiness that food can't satisfy." Toronto Star, September 6, 1990.