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. 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 caretaking.
Afterwards, stay tuned for The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms, a magical-realist short exploring Samuel Geiger's life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and relationship with partner Lauryn Welch, visually mixing paintings and live action to illuminate the emotional dimensions of their shared world.
The award-winning television series POV presents the broadcast premiere of Eat Your Catfish TONIGHT at 10:00 p.m. ET. Watch it on PBS (check local listings) or stream it online or the PBS App.
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.
