Your Fat Friend
World Premiere

Your Fat Friend

Spotlight Documentary
Feature | United States, UK | 96 MINUTES | English
Women, Documentary, LGBTQIA+, Biography

In February 2016, an anonymous blogger known as @yrfatfriend penned a post entitled “A Request From Your Fat Friend: What I Need When We Talk About Bodies” that discussed the realities of what it’s like to go through life as a self-described “very fat person” with candor and vulnerability. The piece struck a chord and quickly went viral. For the next five years, “Your Fat Friend” published numerous popular essays addressing society’s obsession with fatphobia and aggressive anti-fatness. When the writer, Aubrey Gordon, publishes her first book, she boldly decides to shed her anonymity and enter the public spotlight to face her supporters, trolls, and critics for the first time.

Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay (Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King) returns to Tribeca with this incisive, funny, and frank portrait of bestselling author Aubrey Gordon, whose advocacy work has made an immense impact on how people view and treat fat people. Aubrey is intelligent, articulate, open, and wry, and her unique voice and point of view drive this engaging film, which challenges you to see fatness through a different lens.––Andrea Passafiume


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Jeanie Finlay
Director
Jeanie Finlay
Producer
Jeanie Finlay and Suzanne Alizart
Screenwriter
Jeanie Finlay
Cinematographer
Stewart Skylar Copeland, Jeanie Finlay, Lindsay Trapnell, Michel Palmieri, Donal Mosher, Aubrey Gordon
Editor
Alice Powell
Composer
Tara Creme
Executive Producer
Charlotte Cook, Sandra Whipham, Shanida Scotland
Mental Health Supervisor
Rebecca Day
Sound Re-recording Mixer
Pip Norton
Music Supervisor
Graham Langley
Motion Graphics
Sol Baish
Colourist
Vicki Matich
Cast
Aubrey Gordon, Michael Hobbes, Aubrey's parents Rusty and Pam

Contacts
US Sales Contact
Jason Ishikawa
Cinetic Media
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212 204 7979
jason@cineticmedia.com
International Sales Contact
Jason Ishikawa
Cinetic Media
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212 204 7979
jason@cineticmedia.com
Press Contact
David Madgeal
David Magdael & Associates
Los Angeles, ca
Phone: 213 624 7827
dmagdael@dmagpr.com
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