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Your Fat Friend: Documentary examines the way fat people are seen on screen

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Your Fat Friend follows author Aubrey Gordon from her first brutally honest online post.

Documentary looks at societal perceptions of fat people and the fat on our bodies.

Actress Siobhan McSweeney is lending her voice to a new documentary looking to give fat people a fairer and more balanced portrayal in media.

The film's fatal flaw is its insistence on replacing one extreme with another.

Historically, the shorthand characterisation in literature and film has been to make evil, funny or silly characters fat or ugly.

"We have the power to change that with our writing and film making choices," says Finlay .