Eat fat, get skinny. Was that really possible? Mary Bissell, a West Vancouver filmmaker, was taken with the idea when she heard about it from her good friend Dr. Jay Wortman. So when Wortman launched a study of the diet in 2006, she had to see it for herself. That Alert Bay was chosen as the study site was pure serendipity. Bissell knew it was the home of award-winning native filmmaker Barb Cranmer, whom she approached about making a documentary.