An intimate view of a woman with ALS and a family pushed to its breaking point.

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Paralyzed by late-stage ALS and reliant on round-the-clock care, Kathryn clings to a mordant wit as she yearns to witness her daughter's wedding. Drawn from 930 hours of footage shot from her fixed point of view, Eat Your Catfish delivers a brutally frank and darkly humorous portrait of a family teetering on the brink, grappling with the daily demands of disability and in-home caregiving.

Following the conclusion of Eat Your Catfish, the short film The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms ([link removed]) will make its POV broadcast debut. Directed by Eloise Sherrid and Lauryn Welch, the film is a magical-realist window into Samuel Geiger's experience living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome ([link removed]) , a painful connective tissue disorder that complicates mobility in both physical and social spheres, and a portrait of his life with his partner, the painter Lauryn Welch.

Don't miss the broadcast premiere of Eat Your Catfish ([link removed]) presented by the critically acclaimed television series POV on Monday, July 24th at 10 p.m. ET. Watch it on PBS (check your local listings ([link removed]) ) or stream it on pbs.org ([link removed]) or the PBS App ([link removed]) .
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* “In Eat Your Catfish, Kathryn Arjomand transforms her ALS trials into a powerful narrative of anger, acceptance, and offbeat humor.” - Review in Variety ([link removed])

* “Eat Your Catfish is one of the most emotionally enthralling cinematic experiences you will ever have. It will leave you vibrating with anger and sympathy, but also joy and hope.” - Review in The Film Yap ([link removed])

* “An astonishingly open, moving, funny and challenging insight into the world of a woman paralysed but with her mind intact, Eat Your Catfish is remarkable in portraying an intimate and powerful portrait of a family stretched to its very breaking point.” - Review in Business Doc Europe ([link removed])

* “At no point does this feel like a tired stereotype of disability. There are no images of silent saints, doting husbands, or selfless children. They are allowed to be flawed humans, trying to do the right thing for the one they love.” - Review in Brig ([link removed])

* “Crucially, the film gives Kathryn a platform to tell - and indeed show - her story. Her lingering hope is that viewers don’t think she’s pathetic, but plucky... This film grants her that wish.” - Review in Screen Daily ([link removed])

“We were compelled to tell a true story, without contrived heroics, of the daily challenges - both
practical and emotional - of in-home care for a disabled and terminally ill person. We wanted to show a family’s struggle to find meaning in a hopeless situation and hold on to love even without transcending into some higher state of selflessness or finding the energy to serve the greater good as activists.” -Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, and Senem Tüzen, Filmmakers
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
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