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Title: Dying to be Thin
Directors: Samandeep Bains, Neema Wadhia and Kiran Dhillon

Do you think twice about eating that ‘slice of cake’? Do you feel you can’t leave your house wearing those jeans? Well...’Dying to be Thin’ explores the seriousness of the issue of sever weight lose in teenage girls. So who’s to blame? The media, family, friends, fashion designers YOURSELF? This documentary investigates the reasons why and the consequences of losing excess masses of weight.

In our documentary we decided not to particularly deal with a certain character, but instead decided to focus on getting the views from members of the public about ‘skinniness’. We wanted to show that it’s normally in persons head (paranoia) that they don’t look good the way they are.

Dying to Be Thin focuses on weather skinny is actually attractive; we use a vast amount of Vox-Pops to appeal to our target audience. We try to understand reasons why people go to the extreme lengths to become skinny.

The documentary helps girls understand that beauty is more than skin, and It’s not important how you look on the outside, because it’s the inside that counts. It doesn’t matter if a girl’s big, small, fat, skinny because what really matters is that you’re a beautiful person inside.

Interesting Facts: Well a simple trip down to uxbridge to do an interview with our dietician, turned out to be more ADVENTUREOURS then we intended. But all ended well after some serious running around..

Samandeep Bains