Jeanie Finlay’s documentary Your Fat Friend is a wonderful, empathetic film chronicling the journey of author and activist Aubrey Gordon. It follows Gordon from her first post about the 'fat experience' in 2016, under the pseudonym Your Fat Friend, to emerging as a powerful new voice in the advocation of overweight people, a New York Times bestseller and co-creator of podcast Maintenance Phase. Finlay, the documentarian behind Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Sound it Out and the BIFA-winning Seahorse, describes the moment she decided to follow Gordon: “When I was researching for a film on fatness, I read a piece Aubrey wrote while anonymous called A request from your fat friend: what I need when we talk about bodies, and I was like, ‘this is brilliant’. It was heartfelt, intimate and poetic, and I just really wanted to talk to the person who wrote it.
This was published in The Skinny magazine, August 2023. Full interview linked below.
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