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Director Desiree Akhavan on ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’
After her first feature premiered at Sundance to strong reviews, director Desiree Akhavan thought finding money to make a second film would be a snap.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenWhen her film ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Desiree Akhavan expected to hear from interested buyers. Instead, crickets. The festival market has cooled in recent years, but she can’t help wondering if there was another reason buyers didn’t go for her queer, female, coming-of-age story. New York native Akhavan tells our producer Kaitlin Parker why she ended up moving to London after her first feature and how she had to struggle to make ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post,’ which is about a teenage girl forced into gay conversion therapy.
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