MY FAT CAME ALIVE

After a woman is fat-shamed in front of her crush, she tears the fat off her body… but the fat comes alive and tries to reunite with her body at all costs!

Presented as Part Of Program #5 – WESTCOAST TALES – SHORTS

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In-Person

Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas - Aud 9

Nov 06

Credits

Director(s):

Jaymee Mak and Kevin Ang

Biography(s):

Jaymee Mak is a Chinese-Malaysian-Australian-Canadian filmmaker, actor and video game producer based in Vancouver. She recurred in Supergirl as a reporter, telling her dad she finally used her journalism degree. Growing up, Jaymee hated her body. She’d punch and pull at her belly fat, wishing she could just pull it off. So she made MY FAT CAME ALIVE. --- Kevin Ang is a Chinese-Filipino-Canadian filmmaker and animator based in Vancouver. He’s worked on multiple big budget films such as Deadpool 2, Amazing Spider-man and Backrooms. His upcoming short films After Party and Kong Kong''s House of Kung Fu are recipients of the Screen BC Short Film Award and Telus Storyhive Pan-Asian Storyteller grants respectively. 

Producer(s):

Jaymee Mak, Kevin Ang, Dominic Dobrzensky, Graysen Sangster, Edward J Douglas, Nicolas Ayerbe Barona

Writer(s):

Jaymee Mak and Kevin Ang

Cast:

Jana Morrison, Gabrielle Jacinto, Harnoor Gill

Cinematographer(s):

Marc Yungco

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Details

Premiere Status:

Canadian Premiere

Year:

2026

Running Time:

14

Language(s):

English

venue

venues:

Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas - Aud 9