Watch This! The Film Trailer for ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’

Author: Edit Team

July 10, 2018

In August, Filmrise is releasing The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a film adaptation of the novel by 2018 Emerging LGBTQ Voices faculty member Emily M. Danforth.

About the movie:

Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (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 (Ehle) and her brother, Reverend Rick (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 (Lane), and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam (Goodluck). Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family and fight to survive