Fattitude: The Movie

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A feature-length documentary that exposes how popular culture fosters fat prejudice and then offers an alternative way of thinking.



Did you know that fat people are paid $1.25 less an hour than their thin counterparts? Or that a fat person who excels can still legally lose a job just because s/he's fat? How about the reality that 1 in 3 doctors associates fat bodies with hostility, dishonesty and poor hygiene?

Fat people are subject to discrimination everywhere they look. In children's books and stories fat people are villains and bad guys. On our television screens and in the advertising world the fat body is a joke. Magazines and entertainment news shows fixate on the "fatness" of celebrities' bodies and there are very few films that feature fat leads, despite the fact that 60%+ of Americans are - or at the very least consider themselves - fat.

We are making a feature-length independent documentary that exposes how fat hatred permeates our popular culture, spreading the message that fat is bad and in turn forwarding the idea that being cruel, unkind or downright unjust to a fat person is acceptable behavior. As you can tell from our trailer, our film in already in production.

We're here on kickstarter because we need your help to complete our film! Our goal is to get our film finished, out there, and changing the world by the end of 2015!

WHY WE ARE MAKING THIS FILM?

We feel that most people are ill informed when it comes to fatness. We want to offer a counter argument to the current popular notions that condemn fatness in all forms, an argument that overturns notions of fat hatred in favor of body acceptance.

The media and other cultural sources say that people need to lose weight - that obesity is a deadly epidemic, but there is scientific research that shows that weight loss and health are not linked like we think they are. For example, according to ASDAH, "Weight and BMI are poor predictors of disease and longevity. The bulk of epidemiological evidence suggests that five pounds “underweight” is more dangerous than 75 pounds “overweight.”

OUR GOALS FOR THE FILM

This is a film that looks to educate and activate. It is our goal to inform people about the harsh and very real realities of fat shaming and fat hatred. We also hope to inspire people to speak out about the prejudice they face or the mistreatment of others.

While we know that the content of our film will work well in educational environments and expect to promote the film in that context, our real goal is to make the general public more aware of the prejudice that fat people experience. With this in mind, we will be pursuing mainstream distribution for our film and submitting the film to mainstream film festivals.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE...

We set out to make this film because we hated the way fat men and women were treated. We hated that fat people had to feel shame and that they were constantly at the butt end of jokes or assumed to be lazy, dirty or lacking will power. We hated that so many people felt trapped in their amazing bodies and we wanted young people to feel powerful and passionate no matter what size they were. We are still making this film for all these reasons, but in the process of production we have come to realize that this film is also about our personal journeys.

The interviews we have conducted have pushed us to evolve our own views about fat-hatred and fat-shame and although we thought of ourselves as preachers of body acceptance before this process began, we were admittedly suffering from a nagging inability to shake off the lingering whispers of our own self-consciousness. Each day that we work on this film the self-critical whispers lose ground.

Body acceptance is a war - its you against the cacophony of noise incessantly clamoring that nothing about your body will ever be good enough.

What we're learning through the process of making this film is that like any other war winning this one requires that you enlist other strong voices and fighters. We are so thankful for those who fight body hatred alongside us, and we look forward to seeing you join the fight.

Viva La Fattitude!

PLEASE NOTE: BECAUSE THERE ARE HATERS OUT THERE WE ADVISE YOU TO USE ONLY YOUR FIRST NAME ON YOUR KICKSTARTER ACCOUNT AND LEAVE YOUR LOCATION BLANK. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FOR MAKING THIS MUCH NEEDED PROJECT HAPPEN!

[loochy]

F fat people...and not literally, because that's gross.

[Hammock Parties]

The interviews in this thing are hilarious. Even just the 10 second snippets are mind blowingly ignorant.

[Gadzooks]

It's sad that the "move more, eat less" fad diet flew over so many heads.
Now those who have quit on the idea of living a healthy lifestyle are pooling their money to promote their plight.
Silly...

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

It's sad that the "move more, eat less" fad diet flew over so many heads.
Now those who have quit on the idea of living a healthy lifestyle are pooling their money to promote their plight.
Silly...

You don't even have to eat less. Just eat less crap....still to hard for some folks apparently.

[Superbowltrashcan]

Let's face it. The animated female figures they have drawn don't really look like what a truly obese woman looks like in a two piece swimsuit. Uhhh where is the other chin, the cellulite, the short haircut (usually) okay I watched it again and the haircut is iffy at best. I do have a question: if a fat person starves to death, do they die still fat or will they reduce to a normal size on the way to looking like what I think is the right idea of someone starving, really thin?