Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to NYTimes best selling author and podcaster in the new documentary Your Fat Friend.

Release Date

Your Fat Friend, an Official Selection of Tribeca Festival, Sheffield Doc Fest, Edinburgh International Film Festival and more opens theatrically in NYC 12/8 for an Oscar-qualifying run at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema followed a nationwide theatrical rollout in Winter ’24.

Synopsis

As “Your Fat Friend” she writes with candour and humour about what it means to be a very fat woman in the world. With searing honesty she describes what it’s like to be that fat person on the plane..

She spent a decade campaigning for LGBTQIA rights so she knows that change is possible. Now it’s time to advocate for herself.

Made over 6 years, we follow Aubrey’s rise from anonymous blogger to NY Times best selling author and co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase. The most meaningful change is when her family start listening to her message.

Your Fat Friend, a film about fatness, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feeling we hold about our bodies.

Reviews

In their review, The Daily Beast wrote, “Your Fat Friend is an engaging, if often unsurprising, documentary, that finds its stride when it moves into the personal. In fact, the film’s existence keeps Gordon’s intimate anxieties as a simmering undercurrent the entire time; agreeing to write her book, and do this film, means that she’ll have to face a world that is not built for her. She’ll have to fly on planes and open herself up to interviews and questioning just to promote it. But Your Fat Friend is an example of the gratification that comes with ardent, earnest work. Being out in the world is a far easier job when you can be proud of the person you are, in every sense.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for Your Fat Friend