Nurse Directs New Award Winning documentary "inGREEDients" - The inside scoop!

A new food documentary, InGREEDients was among the films previewed by attendees of Wise Traditions 2009 in Chicago last month. I got a chance to interview one of the producers, David Burton, and here is the scoop.

Producer of the film David Burton is a professional registered nurse. Film making is his hobby, he always loves shooting family videos, which led to making backyard films at his home in Connecticut. Local businesses began to hire him and his friends to make short film documentaries for their marketing and promotion campaigns. At this point, he realized, he could make a go of a film making career.

A mutual friend introduced him to J. Wenzel on a hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail. A successful sales management professional, J. dreamed of being a film producer someday. When he heard of David’s success as a self taught filmmaker, he realized that even without formal training, he too, could make movies.

David and his wife moved to FL, yet he and J. were still batting around ideas of what sort of film they could do together. David had noticed on their hiking adventure, that J. seemed to be avoiding hydrogenated oils. On their trip J. had complained of having brought a trailmix bar that had hydrogenated oil in it. He refused to eat it. And, when J. came to visit him in Florida, they went to a restaurant and David noticed Jay was grilling a waitress about what kind of oil they used in the kitchen. David, said, “What is it with you and the hydrogenated oil?”

Then it hit him. “We should do a movie about this, you are obviously passionate about it,” David exclaimed. They left the restaurant and started researching hydrogenated oils on the internet. They found a website, dldewey .com with tons of information about the dangers of trans fats or partially hydrogenated oils.

Spurred on by what they discovered, and even though J. lived in Connecticut and David lived in Florida, they plunged headlong into the film project. David said he knew the long distance partnership would work, because he admired J.’s work ethic.
The Guys Dig Up Over a Dozen Dirty Ingredients

As they dug for more information, they started finding out about all kinds of other terrible ingredients, they became alarmed about other chemical additives such as MSG, corn syrup, aspartame, bleached wheat flour. They also unearthed a hidden form of trans fats, by doing a patent search they found out that manufacturers of mono and diglycerides, start with partially hydrogenated oil.




(full article) http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/12/14/one-filmmakers-journey-from-backyard-flicks...