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2023 Sarasota Film Festival

How to Carry Water

2023• United States• English

About this film

This punk rock fairytale doubles as a portrait of Shoog McDaniel — a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs, the state’s source of precious drinking water. For over a decade, Shoog’s photographs have transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat phobic society views fat bodies.

Credits

Director
Sasha Wortzel
Producer
Colleen Cassingham, Jessica Devaney, Anya Rous
Cast
Shoog McDaniel
Documentary FeatureExperimentalShortSarasota and Florida FilmmakersSarasota Filmmaker
How to Carry Water
How to Carry Water — production still