Frank Ferrante
Frank Ferrante was a 54-year-old Italian-American from working-class Brooklyn struggling with multiple health issues when he stumbled into a vegan restaurant in San Francisco called Café Gratitude. At the time, he thought “vegan” was a planet. For decades Ferrante had been battling drug and alcohol addiction and Hepatitis C; and taking a slew of medications. He also had chronic fatigue, joint pain, depression, no sex drive — and weighed close to 300 pounds. He was essentially a big guy with big problems and a big heart. “May I Be Frank,” a documentary that explores Ferrante’s remarkable reinvention and his alliance with three extraordinary young guys was filmed while Frank went through his life changing experiment. Ferrante has become something of an accidental rock star since the first screening of “May I Be Frank.” Frank says he’s described as "What happens when Tony Soprano meets Deepak Chopra?
