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Caterpillar Documentary Challenges Beauty Standards, Premieres November 7

10/18/2025

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Caterpillar, directed by Liza Mandelup, examines beauty standards and the desire to change eye color, following David Taylor's eye-color procedure in India.
The film premiered at SXSW and won the Nashville Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature.
Good Deed Entertainment will release the film in theaters starting November 7 in New York City, and Erik Donley of GDE praised Mandelup's storytelling.

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Story summary

Caterpillar, directed by Liza Mandelup, examines beauty standards and the desire to change eye color, following David Taylor's eye-color procedure in India.
The film premiered at SXSW and won the Nashville Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature.
Good Deed Entertainment will release the film in theaters starting November 7 in New York City, and Erik Donley of GDE praised Mandelup's storytelling.