Written, produced & directed by Justin Smith
01 · Feature documentary · Free to watch
For more than 50 years, cancer research has focused on finding a single cure: a breakthrough drug or device that eradicates the disease. What if that search has taken us down the wrong path?
02 · Feature documentary · 2021
A portrait of the great Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, following his life, early work, and the making of his first film, Pather Panchali.
03 · Feature documentary · Free to watch · Screenings
How the pharmaceutical industry gained control of Western medicine. A history of the 1910 Flexner Report and the forces that shaped modern healthcare.
04 · Feature documentary · 2012
Does cholesterol really cause heart disease? Statin Nation was the first film, released in 2012, to put the cholesterol hypothesis and statin drugs under the microscope.
05 · Feature documentary · 10 countries · 12 experts
Filmed across ten countries, with 12 experts, the film travels to find the truth about what really causes heart disease. From high-fat consuming nations with little heart disease to the long lives of people with high cholesterol.
06 · Feature documentary · 2017
Life is electric. The body’s electromagnetic fields can be measured and used as the basis of treatment. These treatments have fewer adverse effects than drugs and the medicine of the future may be electroceuticals rather than pharmaceuticals.
07 · Six-part documentary series
Our brains evolved for short-term threats, not the constant stream of modern stressors. Featuring ten leading experts, the series explains what stress is and how to manage it.
08 · Feature documentary · Six festival selections
What if everything we thought we knew about stress was wrong? Groundbreaking research that redefines how stress affects the body and mind, with Dr. Lewis Coleman and Dr. David Mason.
Producer · Director · Writer
Justin Smith is an independent documentary filmmaker from England. He has over thirteen years of experience. He has worked with leading medical professionals around the world, academic researchers and a US non-profit. More recently his practice has turned toward culture-led documentary in Asia, where he has been based for the past decade.
Author of Statin Nation, published in the United States and translated into German. Guardian Masterclass in Investigative Journalism. Films screened at festivals in India, Taiwan, Italy, Germany and Los Angeles.
About the director
The Book
The Ill-Founded War on Cholesterol, What Really Causes Heart Disease, and the Truth About the Most Overprescribed Drugs in the World
Contains elements from both Statin Nation documentaries, with a practical, nutrition and lifestyle based plan for preventing heart disease. Published in the United States and translated into German.
“A complete and authoritative explanation of the causes of heart disease.”
