Diabetes sucks. There’s no need to put it kindly. When diabetes is allowed to exist in a child, it makes you want to punch a sunflower to get some petty revenge on nature.
It’s a hell-of-a feat, then, that director Joe Hitchcock (Penny Black) and producer Morgan Leigh Stewart (Deathgasm) could create a 3-minute documentary that manages to provide an insight to what it’s like being a child with diabetes as well as being too damn cute for words. Though I suppose most of the credit for the latter should go to the film’s peppy four-year-old subject, Dahlia.
Blood Sugar from Loading Docs on Vimeo.
Check out all the Loading Docs films of 2016 at the official website. Funded by NZ On Air with support of The New Zealand Film Commission.
