Truth explores the life of Dr. Jose Luis Calderon, who rose from a mixed Puerto Rican family in the South Bronx to excel at Harvard—spurred on by a promise to his ailing mother never to turn anyone away.
After returning to serve Brooklyn’s under-resourced hospitals during the AIDS crisis, his evolving research led him to collaborate with entrepreneur Clark Swanson on a line of beauty supplements, inadvertently setting off a dispute with YouTube personality Tati Westbrook and her husband James over credit and control.
Following his split from Halo Beauty, Calderon poured his energy into an acne formula called Clear AF, only to face an unexpected tragedy that cut his work short. Featuring Calderon’s own accounts, the film follows a physician-scientist driven by the conviction that “the truth will set you free”—and sheds light on what can happen when personal integrity collides with corporate ambition.
