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CANDY BAR

By Alejandra SZEPLAKI

CINEWORLD - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019

Through the lives of 6 women, the documentary shows us the different relationships that these characters establish with food. Food is synonymous with affection, companionship, reward, punishment, social status, illness, health, poverty, wealth.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ARGENTINA, VENEZUELA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE, SPANISH-VENEZUELAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Alejandra SZEPLAKI
- Producer(s)
- Diego CORSINI (CINEWORLD), Mariana CANGAS (CINEWORLD), Daniel JEROZOLIMSKI (ESTRELLA FILMS)
- Synopsis
- From the sugary mirage of abundance to the bitter reality of overweight and malnutrition
  
  Caracas -the city with the most McDonald's per capita in Latin America- is the capital of Venezuela: the country that FAO removed from the Hunger Map in 2015, but in three years it becomes the country with the most malnutrition and hunger in the region . Very recently, 7 out of 10 Venezuelans were overweight, today Venezuelans have lost 8 kilos of weight on average due to the food emergency.
  
  Venezuela was destined to be the most obese country in our America. Today this position was left to Argentina, which has the most overweight population in South America; But this overweight is synonymous with poverty and not with prosperity.
  
  This documentary is a reflection on the phenomenon of malnutrition and the effects of industrialization that has turned food into commodities that generate colossal profits for mega-corporations of food products.
  
  Through the lives of 6 women, the documentary shows us different aspects of food and how a plate of food is crossed by emotional, cultural, economic and finally political relationships.
  
  The final twist: the solution is to fight so that our food comes from Mother Earth and not from the supermarket shelves.