Well Rounded
Post-film panel discussion
FRIDAY 29 April | 7:00PM
ACMI
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Post-film panel discussion
Join us for a panel discussion after the film.
Film Synopsis
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 marginalised bodies. Interviewees all tell stories of struggle, self-actualisation and radicalisation, 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 dreamy 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.
Film Info
Australian Premiere
Director: Shana Myara
Country: Canada
Year: 2020
Duration: 61 minutes
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Winner Best Canadian Film, Reelout Queer Film Festival 2021
Screening Location: ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne | Plan your visit to ACMI
Accessibility:
Rating: Unclassified 15+
Festival Selection
Panel discussion curated by A Plus Market
Curated by the team at A Plus, this panel of plus size activists, creatives, fashion icons and writers will explore the intersections of fatness, race and queer identity through the lens of the film. They will unpack their experiences moving through the world in fat bodies, the importance of communities when it comes to creating change, and why fat acceptance should be on the social change agenda.
A Plus Market is a roving plus size fashion market, co-organised by Sam van Zweden and Chloe Papas. A Plus creates safe spaces for plus size people to shop, sell preloved clothing, find and build community, and take up space. Sam and Chloe are passionate about moving towards a world where all people in plus size bodies are accepted, safe and celebrated.
Eloise Grills (moderator)
Eloise Grills is a writer, comics artist and poet living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. She has won the Melbourne Writers' Prize, the Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Nonfiction, and the Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for Nonfiction. Her illustrated essay collection, big beautiful female theory, is forthcoming with Affirm Press in June.
@grillzoid
Candy Bowers
Candy Bowers is an award-winning mischief-maker, writer, comedian, TV creator, actor, director and lyricist working across media, stage and screen. Born of South African political refugees, she has created an extraordinary cross-disciplinary body of work that shakes and tickles audiences in equal measure. Host of the MULTIHYPHO podcast she is currently developing an original tv series entitled Bottlo2560 and writing her first feature film for young adults called Elastic Tribe.
Lacey-Jade Christie (she/her)
Lacey-Jade Christie (she/her) is a body positivity activist, plus-size fashion influencer, writer and nurse. She has written for The Guardian, Archer Magazine, AirBnB Magazine, Mamamia and more. She is also a plus-size model and eating disorder survivor whose goal in life is to inspire people to love the skin they're in through the power of storytelling and education.
Tarneen Onus Williams
Tarneen Onus Williams is a proud Gunditjmara, Bindal, Yorta Yorta person and Torres Strait Islander from Mer and Erub Islands. Tarneen living on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples.
Tarneen is a community organiser for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance working on Invasion Day, Black Deaths in Custody and Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal Communities in WA. They are a filmmaker and writer and have been published in IndigenousX, The Saturday Paper, NITV and RightNow. Tarneen’s film “young mob questioning treaty” has been screened internationally at ImagineNATIVE in Toronto and Tampere Film Festival in Finland. Tarneen works as the Community Legal Educator at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service.