Fattitude
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| Directed by | Viridiana Lieberman, Lindsey Averill |
| Produced by | Lindsey Averill |
Release date | 2016 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45,000 (estimated) |
Fattitude is a (2016) documentary film by Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman. The movie is about fat discrimination and its main obective is to make the general public more aware of the prejudice that fat people experience. The movie propagates the fat acceptance movement—a social movement that seeks to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes.[1][2][3][4][5] The film was financed by running a successful crowdfunding campaign at the website Kickstarter in which 1,073 backers pledged $44,140 to help bring this project to life.[6][7][8]
Overview
Fattitude is a feature length documentary that exposes how popular-culture encourages weight bias, and offers alternative ideas and ways of thinking that embrace all body sizes. The filmmakers hope to change the national conversation about body image so that it focuses on not only issues of self-acceptance, but also legitimate questions of systemic prejudice—for example the relationship between race, poverty, and obesity.[9]
The goal of this documentary is to educate inform people about the harsh and very real realities of fat shaming and fat hatred. The documentary also hopes to inspire people to speak out about the prejudice they face or the mistreatment of others.[10]
Controversy
After starting the kickstarter campaign, Averill and Lieberman became the target of heavy trolling and harassment from anonymous users on 4chan and other web forums, and received rape and death threats. People ordered pizzas delivered to Averill’s home, and they were forced to change their phone numbers due to the number of hateful calls.[11][12][13]
References
- ^ "'Fattitude' Will Stop You From Making Fat People The Butt Of Your Jokes". huffingtonpost.
- ^ "'Fattitude': Documentary aims to promote body acceptance". seattletimes.
- ^ "I'm Being Stalked By Fat-Shamers — & I'm Still Fighting". refinery29.
- ^ "This Movie Will Change How You Think About The Word "Fat"". buzzfeed.
- ^ "Look At All The Ways Pop Culture Discriminates Against A Certain Body Type. How Wrong Is That?". upworthy.
- ^ "Q&A With 'Fattitude' Producer Lindsey Averill: How To Use The Word "Fat"". oxygen.
- ^ "Here's How You Can Help Make "Fattitude," A Documentary About Sizeism, A Reality". thefrisky.
- ^ "Fattitude Kickstarter Page". kickstarter.
- ^ "Filmmaker behind fat-shaming documentary hit with rape and death threats". dailymail.
- ^ "Fattitude: Documentary to be aimed at promoting body acceptance". sun-sentinel.
- ^ "The Internet's Scary Reacton To This Woman's Fat Acceptance Film Will Fill You With Rage". thegloss.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "'Fattitude' Filmmaker Lindsey Averill Attracts the Ire of Awful Internet Trolls". Bustle.
- ^ "Fattitude: Fighting Fat Discrimination With A Body Positive Documentary". womenyoushouldknow.