Thank you for editing me, I didn’t actually touch anyone I was just looking. I’m not going to write that you went around set touching people. I was in a daze of disbelief, touching people like, “Are you real?” I went once with my wife Erica and we got to go for a few days.

I didn’t get to be at the set for the whole shoot, because I was teaching last year. Between August of 2016, when Desi actually came with me to Montana to filming in October of that year to now, it really does all feel like the most unreal of unreals. It took a while before she had time to pursue this, and then a long time to get the option, write the screenplay and get funding sources.

I didn’t write the screenplay, though I saw it and made notes, but I’ve been talking to Desi about this in one form or another for several years. “Don-Johnson Hawaiian shirt gayby realness.”Īutostraddle: Tell us a little bit about your role in the film’s production!Įmily Danforth: In the official credited capacity I believe I’m listed as a consultant, but really I just think Desi (writer and director Desiree Akhavan) and Cecilia (screenplay writer Cecilia Frugiuele) just have been super generous including me on things.

The book was adapted into a film starring Chloe Grace Moretz, which is scheduled to premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January.ĭanforth is writing her next novel on a yearlong sabbatical from teaching creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College, and took some time out of her busy day to chat with Autostraddle staff writer Molly Priddy, also a Montanan, about the upcoming film.Īnd to help set the mood of growing up queer in the ’90s, we’re peppering in some of Emily’s own pictures from her childhood in Miles City, Montana through her college years, because they’re sweet and amazing and all of the captions are her own. The novel was well-received critically, and it opened up a conversation for and about rural queerness and how living in sparsely populated, conservative places in the United States shapes those experiences. In 2012, Emily Danforth published her novel, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” following the story of a young girl in Montana who discovers her sexuality and is sent to a conversion therapy program. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.

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