Release date 2016 Language English Director Lindsey Averill | Country USA Budget $45,000 (estimated) Produced by Lindsey Averill | |
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Directed by Viridiana Lieberman,
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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. 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.
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Fattitude
Overview
Fattitude anticipated to be a feature length documentary that expresses a viewpoint about 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. As of 2016, the film is in "starvation mode," i.e. post-production delays beyond the control of the film-makers.
The documentary informs people about what the filmmakers call 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.
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.