5/3/25 Thrasher Opera House to Host PKU Animated Series
3 May 2025 News
Green Lake, Wis. – Join us as we continue our Film Series at the historic Thrasher Opera House, where stories come alive on the big screen! On Thursday, May 29th we will feature The Low – Phe Life by Kurt Sensenbrenner. The Low-Phe Life is an animated-documentary-comedy series about living with PKU—a rare metabolic disorder. PKU or phenylketonuria inhibits a person’s ability to break down protein. People with PKU, like Kurt Sensenbrenner the series’ director, must adhere to a strict low protein diet of fruits and vegetables, and drink a supplemental formula multiple times a day for their entire life to avoid serious neurological and physical side effects. For reference a non-PKU person consumes about sixty grams of protein per day, Kurt can only have seven.
Kurt is a documentary director and producer who happens to have PKU. He started as a freelance camera operator working on various fiction and nonfiction projects for various clients including Comedy Central, Google, NBC, Oxygen, and the New York Times. After directing and producing his first feature documentary “From Mass to the Mountain”—a story of one man’s crusade to protect rainforests and freshwater sheds in neglected Eastern Panama—Kurt turned his focus to documentary full-time. His documentary work can now be seen in film festivals worldwide, on Amazon Prime, and PBS. Kurt has a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Studies and Production from Hofstra University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
May is also PKU Awareness Month. A Q&A with the director will occur after the film. All movies are free to attend. Doors open at 5 p.m., Showing at 6 p.m., our bar will be open to purchase drinks.
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