The Miseducation of Cameron Post
A queer coming-of-age story set in the 90s – this is the premise of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a film that earned writer/director Desiree Akhavan the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival in 2018.
Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.)—himself an example of how those in the program can be “cured”—the center is built upon repenting for “same sex attraction.” In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane), and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam (Forrest Goodluck). Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, is contrary to what one might think, less about the evils of conversion therapy and more about sexual awakening, friendship and the society’s need to label anything “devious” from the norm as dangerous.
Director: Desiree Akhavan
writer, director & star of Appropriate Behavior, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance
Film Festival and was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the Indie Spirit Awards.
She’s also the co-creator and star of the web series The Slope. She lives in London,
where she is filming a comedy series for Hulu & Channel 4 that was developed at the
The Sundance Institute’s Episodic Story Lab. She has a BA from Smith College, an MFA
from NYU’s Grad Film Program.