Your Fat Friend + Virtual Director Q&A

Award Winning films from Cornwall Film Festival - Opening Film 

Your Fat Friend | Dir Jeanie Finlay | 2023 | 1hr 36 mins | UK | Documentary | CFF12A

Your Fat Friend is a film about an 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. 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 candour 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, published her first book,…