America the Beautiful, a powerful documentary that explores America's obsession with beauty recently won the Special Jury Prize for Best Representation of the UN Declaration for the Rights of a Child at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
This acclaim comes just weeks after winning The Special Jury Prize for Best Director at the 43rd Annual Chicago International Film Festival.
Directed by Darryl Roberts, this outstanding documentary is sweeping the film festival circuit.
I caught the film at the Chicago International Film Festival and it is one of the most profound docs I've ever seen. Roberts, in a Michael Moore-like expose, navigates the pristine beauty world, making his way to backstage runways and plastic surgeons offices, and reveals the cruel and calculated underworld that guides America's favorite obsessions. He shadows a cast of beauty industry fixtures including a precocious teen model and plastic surgeons top rated TV shows. But he also interviews the parents of a young girl who died of bulimia, researchers with jaw dropping stories about the chemicals in cosmetics, and a bevy of super sexist guys.
Roberts said it took him some three years to complete this project and its well worth the wait. For more info and upcoming shows check www.americathebeautifuldoc.com
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