The price for streaming That Sugar Film this week is pretty sweet: nothing. Director and presenter Damon Gameau’s smash-hit 2014 documentary, in which he embarks on a Super Size Me-esque stunt, is this week’s ‘free movie of the week’ on the Australian streaming platform Ozflix.
Head over to Ozflix to watch it. Be sure to enter the following promo code at checkout to see it for free: TY8ESIR3M9Y8.
That Sugar Film broke records in the year of its release, becoming the highest-grossing non-IMAX Australian doco at the local box office (a record that has since been broken by Mountain). In it Gameau goes on a 60 day diet, consuming the typical Australian’s 40 teaspoons of sugar per day.
The twist is that all the food he eats is perceived to be healthy. As a result, Gameau claims he experienced a range of distressing health issues. These include fatty liver disease, mood swings and early signs of potential coronary problems.
Here’s a snippet from a review of the film written by Nick Dent from Time Out:
“The debut documentary feature by Australian actor Damon Gameau (Balibo, Thunderstruck) sets out to expose the vast amount of sugar we consume without even realising it. Following the lead of Morgan Spurlock’s film Super Size Me, Gameau makes himself a guinea pig, replacing his own low-sugar diet with a diet of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day, representing the intake of the average Australian.
What’s scary is that he is able to do it without eating fast food, lollies or drinking soft drinks. Instead, he ingests normal supermarket foods like cereals, yoghurt and pasta sauce and drinks fruit juices, iced tea and smoothies. That smoothies containing sweet fruits are as sugar-loaded as Coca-Cola is one of the bombshells that this lively documentary drops, along with the fact that 80 per cent of supermarket products contain the white ruin.”
For more information about That Sugar Film and its findings, head over to the official website for ‘That Sugar Movement’.
