Sugar Babies

In 2002, filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie’s 4-year-old daughter was the third generation in her family to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Ten years later, Mackenzie reveals the spiraling epidemics of both type 1 and 2 diabetes in children through five real life stories, including her own. In a compel...

Part 1 examines the public health epidemic of diabetic children in America from the point of view of the children and the families living with the diseases. The documentary offers a brief primer on diabetes: there are two main categories-–type 1and type 2. Both conditions occur when the body fail...

Part 2 of the Sugar Babies diabetes mini-series examines the rising rates of type 1 diabetes. Ann Marie is the mother of 11-year-old Gus, who was diagnosed at age 7. Shortly after her son’s diagnosis she realizes there are several newly diagnosed kids in her own neighborhood of Weston, Massachuse...

Part 3 of the Sugar Babies diabetes mini-series address the public health epidemic of type 2 diabetes from the point of view of Joyce, a dynamic nurse-practitioner at the renowned Joslin Clinic who treats two teenagers with type 2 diabetes. The film flows two of Joyce's patients, Janae and Janill...