KCTS to Present Broadcast Premiere of New Locally Produced Film About World HungerSilent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger to Premiere on Thursday, June 9

KCTS of Seattle, Washington, will broadcast Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger, on Thursday, June 9 at 9:00 p.m. PDT. The film, a one-hour documentary produced by Seattle independent producers Hana Jindrova and John de Graaf, in association with KCTS, examines problems and solutions for ending world hunger.

There are still a billion hungry people in the world. Fifteen thousand children — the equivalent of five times the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — die each day of hunger. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. Silent Killer shows how we can end hunger — if we make a commitment to doing so.

Hosted by National Public Radio's Scott Simon, the film begins in the 100-degree heat of South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, where razor-thin members of the Khomani San tribe — commonly called Bushmen — use the Hoodia, a cactus-like plant with appetite-suppressant properties, to fend off hunger. We learn that a pharmaceutical firm has patented the appetite-suppressant properties of Hoodia and is using it to make a diet product for obese Americans and Europeans. The Hoodia becomes a metaphor for a world where some people have too much food, but millions of others have far too little.

Silent Killer introduces viewers to compelling stories and characters to raise and answer questions about hunger in a powerful, exquisitely photographed documentary. The film is sure to get viewers talking again about an international crisis that keeps haunting the world.

Please visit Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger  (http://www.silentkillerfilm.org) to read more about the film, and to view full interview and video clips.