Shana Myara’s documentary focuses on fat and fierce babes in Canada who are using their creativity to clap back at a diet culture that seeks to shrink marginalized bodies. Interviewees all tell stories of struggle, self-actualisation and radicalization, and taking back charge in a fatphobic, racist heteronormative society. Here, fatness, queer identity and race intersect in unique ways that never get represented in film, underlined with a fat-ass bass soundtrack and gorgeous animation. It’s a truly liberating film, and through its use of burlesque, comedy, dance circus, media and more, you will be left in no doubt of the intrinsic value of ALL bodies. DIY, direct and full of heart, Well Rounded takes us through personal stories of terror and triumph – this is the fat queer film we’ve been waiting for!

• Features Mi'qmaw force of nature, comedian and broadcaster, Candy Palmater.
• Ivory, a founding member of the Succulent Six, Canada’s team of Curvy Super SHEroes and proud member of Les Femmes Fatales.
• Lydia Okello, model, stylist and writer/editor.
• Joanne Tsung, stand-up comic and storyteller, and a queer Taiwanese-Canadian activist who lives on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.
• Dr. Janet Tomiyama, Psychologist
• Dr. Jenny Ellison, Historian and author of Being Fat.

WARNING: Mature content. Viewer discretion is advised.