Help Me Host a Watch Part for Your Fat Friend

Help Me Host a Watch Part for Your Fat Friend

YrFatFriendFilm.com

I loved this excellent documentary about Aubrey Gordon, fatness, family, the complexities of change, and the messy feelings we hold about our bodies. Over six years, director Jeanie Finlay follows Gordon from anonymous blogger yrfatfriend in 2016 to bestselling 2020 writer of What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Fat and beloved Maintenance Phase podcaster with an audience of millions.

Aubrey Gordon urges a paradigm shift in how we view fat people and the fat on our own bodies. I cheered and cried while watching the movie, as it shows Gordon’s strength (and love of her body in water) while also demonstrating her family’s ambiguous support and documenting the abuse she experiences daily, both online and off. It’s got pro captions and audio description (but no AD in the trailer).

Trailer on YouTube https://youtu.be/lodyin_6x3c

( stream it here )

I want to host a free online watch party, but I’ve never done this. I’m willing to subsidize the license fee. Are you the tech whiz who can help make this happen?

The tasks I imagine:

• create a PR strategy to garner viewership
• choose a platform to host the screening; the director has established a relationship with ROCO films, which can supply hosting and logins at FilmForum.net
• test CC and AD to make sure they're working
• attempt to prevent unlicensed distribution of the work
• host a discussion

If you have experience organizing asynchronous, time-limited, online movie showings, and are willing to help spread Aubrey Gordon’s message, please let me know — here or via DW’s direct messaging.