\n\tWe have your first look at the film in the trailer above. The documentary\u2019s central figure is a young man so unhappy with his brown eye color that he\u2019s willing to go under the knife to change it.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tDavid Taylor in \u2018Caterpillar\u2019<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGood Deed Entertainment<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cEndlessly struggling to feel seen, David Taylor becomes infatuated with a mysterious company\u2019s promise to transform people\u2019s lives by permanently changing the color of their eyes,\u201d notes a synopsis. \u201cAfter traveling to India to get the controversial procedure, he begins to question if this artificial beauty will give him the fulfillment he truly seeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThis is Mandelup\u2019s follow up to the acclaimed feature documentary Jawline (2019) which examined standards of male beauty and self-presentation (and self-marketing) in the social media age. Caterpillar premiered at SXSW and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at the Nashville Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary at the Denver Film Festival.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI am thrilled to be working with Good Deed Entertainment to get this film out to the world,\u201d Mandelup said in a statement. \u201cAudiences at our film festival screenings have responded to David Taylor\u2019s moving story. I am beyond excited to collaborate with a team that so clearly values original storytelling. I can\u2019t wait for the world to see this film!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tErik Donley, head of Acquisitions & Distribution, Good Deed Entertainment & Cranked Up Films, commented, \u201cGDE is honored to partner with Liza Mandelup to bring Caterpillar to audiences worldwide, a film that affirms her gift for capturing cultural stories before they enter the mainstream. Caterpillar is a film you\u2019ll want to watch again and again \u2013 I\u2019m certain of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGood Deed Entertainment<\/p>\n
\n\tCaterpillar enjoys a 100 percent critics ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is directed by Liza Mandelup and produced by Jay Van Hoy, Matthew Cherchio, and Mandelup. Executive producers include Michael Cho, Mimi Rode, Tim Lee, Maria Zuckerman, Christine Connor, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Bryn Mooser, and Kathryn Everett. Cinematography is by Benjamin Whatley; Alex O\u2019Flinn edited the film. Palmbomen II composed the music.<\/p>\n
\n\tGDE, distributor of the Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated animated feature film Loving Vincent, is an Ohio-based independent studio \u201cdedicated to producing, financing and distributing quality entertainment for film, television, the worldwide web and tomorrow\u2019s anticipated platforms.\u201d Through its genre division, Cranked Up Films, GDE develops, produces, and distributes high concept horror, grounded sci-fi and speculative fiction. GDE\u2019s releases in 2025 include the drama Looking Through Water directed by Roberto Sneider and starring David Morse and Michael Douglas, and Temple Grandin: An Open Door, John Barnhardt\u2019s feature documentary about the famed scholar, inventor and advocate for people with autism.<\/p>\n
\n\tWatch the trailer for Caterpillar above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In 1985, the Pogues released a song called \u201cA Pair of Brown Eyes.\u201d A few years earlier,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,61394,134,114436,114437,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-219002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-caterpillar","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-good-deed-entertainment","13":"tag-liza-mandelup","14":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}