[2] It was funded in part by the Sage Foundation and the Illinois Humanities Council.

[3] The film was directed by Joanna Rudnick, the Emmy-nominated director of In the Family.

Guidotti left a 15-year career in fashion when he became frustrated with restrictive standards of beauty.

He formed the non-profit Positive Exposure, which uses photographs and video to change public perceptions of people with genetic, physical, behavioral and intellectual differences.

[4] On Beauty follows Rick with two of his subjects: Sarah, who was bullied for her Sturge-Weber birthmark, and Janey, a girl with albinism living in East Africa.