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With one foot already out the door at CBS Evening News, Katie Couricis actively expanding her resume.
In addition to a likely syndicated show as well as other news opportunities, a production company and a potential portal relationship, Couric is throwing her support behind Tapped filmmakers Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey and their feature documentary about obesity. According to one source familiar with the situation, Couric currently has no formal role in the film, though that is subject to change.
Her relationship with Soechtig dates back to an interview done last July for her online series, @KatieCouric, where the pair, along with International Bottled Water Association CEO Joe Doss, talked about the questions of safety surrounding bottled water, the subject of Tapped.
Meantime, Couric is on the circuit promoting her new book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives. Tomorrow’s stop includes a segment on the Today show, where she’ll reunite with her former co-host Matt Lauer, whose potential departure from his morning show post in late 2012 has given the media even more to talk about.
As we've previously reported, bottled water has a scary story and its one best not told at bedtime with small children. Why? Because you're drinking tap water placed into containers that may have adverse effects on our health and certainly have adverse effects on the environment.
Luckily, the shady side to the bottled water industry is slowly being brought to light by a determined resident of Santa Monica. Stephanie Soechtig is the director of "Tapped", a documentary by the producers of "Who Killed the Electric Car" and "I.O.U.S.A." Soechtig, who has worked in television for ten years, is currently President of Atlas Films.
Recently, we spoke with Soechtig about the future of bottled water and why Michael Pollan is superior to George Clooney. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>
Is bottled water bad for the environment? Katie Couric talks to "Tapped" filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and Joe Doss, president of the International Bottled Water Association.
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles TImes
There's a not-so-new boogeyman in town and it's the bottled water business, whose troubling tentacles are persuasively exposed by director Stephanie Soechtig in her compact, clear-headed documentary "Tapped." Soechtig's cautionary tale is well supported by interviews with a variety of activists, environmentalists, community leaders and, especially, several small-town residents whose health and welfare have been compromised by the encroachment of the bottled water industry. If their stories don't persuade you to ditch the Dasani, vivid shots of how water bottle refuse is turning our oceans into "plastic soup" should do the trick.
- Ben Lyons, E! Entertainment & At the Movies
Eye-opening, informative and incredibly important for you to see... Tapped is another example of realizing film's potential to inspire. This is a passionate documentary, well-executed from engaging and intelligent voices who will inform and entertain you with their movie. See it!
Documentarian Stephanie Soechtig makes a stunning debut with this inquisitive and whip-smart address to the questions posited and yielded--directly and indirectly--by the big business of bottled water. Is clean drinking water an inalienable right, or is it a privilege like every other commodity? This question and many others are at the center of TAPPED.
- Jon Peters, Killerfilm.com
Food, Inc. unraveled the food industry in a stunning display of facts and terror. Tapped, the debut film from Stephanie Soechtig, feels like a companion piece in certain ways, but is just as vital and maybe more important. Soechtig isn’t a slave to letting just the facts tell the story, as she’s well versed with her subject and during interviews, she clearly outsmarts the interviewees at their own game. Tapped is one of the most pivotal documentaries made to save our lives.
- Peter Rothberg, The Nation
With style, verve and righteous anger, the film exposes the bottled water industry's role in suckering the public, harming our health, accelerating climate change, contributing to overall pollution, and increasing America's dependence on fossil fuels. All while gouging consumers with exorbitant and indefensible prices.
Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru
Illuminating, well-researched and vital. Documentaries like Tapped come along every once in a while to raise awareness, to inform the public and to clear the fog of propaganda.
David de Rothschild
To start the process of change there is no better tool than curiosity and Tapped certainly asks all the right questions! We need more must-see films like Tapped, in order to inspire the change and solutions that our planet so desperately craves.
