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#Documentaries fat sick and nearly dead series#

In addition to editing, Kurt also created a series of short films featuring Chernobyl, the guitar playing penguin. He edited promos and programs for Lifetime, CBS and ABC and was senior editor on Michael Moore’s Emmy nominated show The Awful Truth (1999). After adventures around the country, he settled in New York City where he worked as an Avid editor at HBO, MSNBC and National Video Center. Kurt Engfehr grew up next to a steel mill in a working class suburb of Detroit. Joe the Co-Director, Executive Producer, and the host and subject of Reboot Media’s first feature length film, “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead”. Joe founded Reboot Media a health and lifestyle brand that creates entertaining and actionable educational media for anyone that is sick and tired of being sick and fat. The portfolio includes: Thakoon, a leading US based high end fashion label Willow, a high end Australian based fashion label and Citibabes, a club and education centre for families with small children. Today, Jaymsea has a diverse portfolio of active investments with financial and managerial stakes in high potential growth companies. A number of these businesses have gone from a start up to a thriving and successful business in a few short years. During 2003, Joe began investing his own capital through his investment vehicle Jaymsea Investments Pty Ltd. During this time, Joe founded several companies in the derivatives trading and technology space.įrom the late 1990s until 2003, Joe managed a diverse portfolio of assets in telecommunications, media, technology and financial services for Queensland Press Ltd, a wholly owned company of News Corp. Joe began his business career as a trader on the Sydney Futures Exchange where he worked from the early 1980s until 1998. These include investments in the fashion, transportation, private equity finance, derivatives trading, early childhood education, structural steel distribution and health and wellness sectors. Joe Cross is an Australian entrepreneur and investor who invests in early stage high potential growth companies. Part road trip, part self-help manifesto, “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” defies the traditional documentary format to present an unconventional and uplifting story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves.ĪBOUT THE FILMMAKERS JOE CROSS Director/Executive Producer What emerges is nothing short of amazing – an inspiring tale of healing and human connection. As Joe is recovering his health, Phil begins his own epic journey to get well. Phil Staples is morbidly obese weighing in at 429 pounds a cheeseburger away from a heart-attack.

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While talking to more than 500 Americans about food, health and longevity, it’s at a truck stop in Arizona where Joe meets a truck driver who suffers from the same rare condition. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle.

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He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days.

With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long- term, Joe turns to the only option left, the body’s ability to heal itself.

“Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe’s personal mission to regain his health.

In the mirror he saw a 310-lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn’t end well- with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn’t far behind. About 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope.