DIRECTOR: Desiree Akhavan
PRODUCERS: Cecilia Frugiuele, Jonathan Montepare, Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub
SCREENPLAY: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele. Based on the novel by Emily M. Danforth
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ashley Connor
EDITOR: Sara Shaw
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Markus Kirschner
COSTUME DESIGNER: Stacey Berman
MUSIC: Julian Wass​
WITH: Chloë Grace Moretz (Cameron Post), Sasha Lane (Jane Fonda), Forrest Goodluck (Adam Red Eagle), John Gallagher Jr (Reverend Rick), Jennifer Ehle (Dr Lydia Marsh)

FESTIVALS: Sundance, San Francisco, Tribeca 2018
AWARDS: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2018

REVIEW

“It’s 1993 in small town America and as Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) prepares for prom, Irma Thomas’ ‘Anyone Who Knows What Love Is’ plays over the proceedings. We can sense this is not going to end well. Before the night is over she and her girlfriend Coley are caught getting hot and heavy in the back of a car by Cameron’s boyfriend. Just as quickly as passion flared, Cameron is whisked off to God’s Promise, a gay conversion camp in remote Montana.

Run by the Nurse Ratched-like Dr Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle), God’s Promise works with its ‘disciples’ to identify the root cause of their same-sex attraction and cure them of their sinful ways. Cameron shares a room with the fully indoctrinated Erin, a young woman whose gender confusion and ‘SSA’ she enthusiastically confesses stem from her love of sports. Cameron’s attempts at fitting into the programme are written all over her face as she searches for the answers they want to hear rather than fighting for her truth.
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Never resorting to shocking or confrontational scenes, director Desiree Akhavan keeps the darkness in her material always hovering just on the surface, blossoming with Julian Wass’ haunting music direction… The Miseducation of Cameron Post is an ode to survival and finding your logical family.”

​— Kailey Carruthers, NZIFF 2018

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Auckland     
​Monday 30 November, 6.30pm

Nelson     
Tuesday 19 May, 6.00pm

Queenstown     
Tuesday 9 June, 8.15pm

New Plymouth     
Wednesday 8 July, 6.00pm

Whanganui     
Monday 27 July, 7.00pm
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