Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut

Film screening: Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut with the Director, Anjali Nayar. Join us for a special screening of Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut, a Netflix documentary featuring director Anjali Nayar on September 29 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Schurman Hall, Lecture Hall 4. This informative yet lighthearted film explores the complexities of the digestive system and its vital role in maintaining overall health and well-being. Hack Your Health received four Emmy Award nominations in 2025, winning one award. The documentary also reached the number one spot on Netflix in 10 countries and ranked among the platform's Top 10 films in 77 countries worldwide. Following the screening, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with director Anjali Nayar, where she will discuss the film and answer audience questions. Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwfuJr07Pg Bio: Anjali Nayar Anjali Nayar is a Canadian-Indian filmmaker, former climate scientist, and founder of the TIMBY suite of environmental and human rights reporting tools. Nayar’s most recent feature film about gut health and the microbiome, Hack Your Health, premiered on Netflix as an original in April 2024, and quickly rose to be a top 10 Netflix film in 77 countries around the world. Her other films include a fantasy short film called Closer, which won Canada's Prism Prize audience award in 2022 and Silas, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 and was acquired by Amazon. Silas profiles activists using smartphones to expose land grabbing and corruption in West Africa and was executive produced by Ed Zwick and Leonardo DiCaprio. Nayar's feature directorial debut, Gun Runners, premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in May 2016 and was acquired by Netflix. The film follows two Kenyan warriors who trade in their AK-47s to pursue marathon running. Beyond film, Nayar has written and filmed extensively for Nature, Reuters, the CBC News, the BBC, and NPR. Nayar has a Masters in Documentary from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a Masters in Environmental Management from Linacre College, University of Oxford, and a Graduate degree in space science from the International Space University. Nayar founded TIMBY (This Is My Backyard), a suite of digital tools that helps activists report, verify and tell stories safely.