Aussie Director Turns To FB After Body-Love Film Trailer Cops Cinema Ban

An Aussie filmmaker and body positivity activist has been forced to promote her documentary about body image on Facebook rather than via traditional routes, after the ratings board deemed the trailer too nudity-heavy to be shown in cinemas. 

Taryn Brumfitt, who decided to direct EMBRACE after a before-and-after pic she posted in 2013 went viral as hell, took to Facebook to ask her followers on the Body Image Movement to share the trailer.

“As some of you know I’ve been having some…well, lets call them challenges in terms of censorship surrounding the film,” she wrote. “The trailer for the film is not allowed to be seen in cinemas (with a rating M or less) and the film poster cannot be promoted on some social media sites as it is showing too much “flesh”. *sigh*

“It is very hard to get the word out about the film when it is being blocked on various platforms, I’m incredibly frustrated.

“On a personal note I didn’t spend two years of my life making this film and sacrificing more than anyone will ever know for it NOT to be seen. And most importantly, this film is a conversation starter, it needs to be seen by women, men and children far and wide.”

The weird thing is, this was the level of nudity in the trailer:



(You’ve probably seen this pic before – this is the one that started it all.)

At the time of writing, the trailer has been shared over 155,000 times.

After premiering at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, where it made the festival director’s top 5 picks and was nominated for the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Best Documentary, the film finally opened in select cinemas across Australia the other week.
To find out where you can see the film, check here – but in the meantime, give the trailer a watch below.

Photo: Body Image Movement.

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