Jeanie Finlay (she/her) directed the film Your Fat Friend that features six years of Aubrey Gordon’s life- from anonymous essayist to going public to creating the Maintenance Phase podcast to the publishing of her first book. Jeanie shares how this film makes the persona political, what it was like to be on her own fat liberation journey while working with Aubrey, and how she intentionally wanted to show Aubrey’s body.

Jeanie Finlay is one of Britain’s most distinctive documentary makers. She creates award-winning work for cinema and television, telling intimate stories to international audiences. She has made films for HBO, IFC, BBC as well as four commissions for the acclaimed BBC Storyville strand, including BIFA nominated The Great Hip Hop Hoax and BIFA winning Orion:The Man Who Would Be King.

Please connect with Jeanie through her website and the film’s website.

This episode’s poem is called “The Ordinary” by Kirsten Dierking.

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