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The Business

Director Desiree Akhavan on ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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. But after striking out in LA, Akhavan’s quest to make another project ultimately landed her in London. She tells us why she thinks the Brits are more open to her ideas, and talks about her newest film, ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post.’

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:04.9

That's the thing I keep wondering, is, is it a reflection of the industry?

0:10.6

Is it a reflection of the fact that it's a female, sexual coming-of-age story that's gay?

0:16.1

Desirea Akavan expected a bidding more when her film,

0:19.1

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, won the grand jury prize at Sundance.

0:23.6

Instead, crickets.

0:25.4

The market has cooled in recent years, but she can't help wondering if there was another reason buyers didn't go for it.

0:30.9

New York native Akevan tells our producer, Caitlin Parker, why she ended up moving to London after her first feature,

0:37.1

and how she had to struggle to make the miseducation of Cameron Post about a teenage girl forced into gay conversion therapy.

0:44.5

But first on the news banter, Moonvez fights for survival. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

0:55.0

I'm joined by my buddy and banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

0:58.7

Hello, Matt.

0:59.6

Hi there.

1:00.6

So, as we are recording, the drama involving Leslie Moonvest continues, and I feel like it's hard to form a sentence almost because if another few allegations come out against him of sexual misconduct,

1:13.0

I don't know how much more can be withstood. The state of play is that Ronan Farrow published

1:18.0

his series of allegations. These were six women. The most recent allegation was more than 10 years

1:24.1

old. That was one and the rest were more than 20 years old. So I think the

1:28.3

point of view on this is either, is it possible to evolve? Is it possible to forgive? Or the other

1:34.6

side would be, no, it is not possible. That's misconduct. He has to go. The whole place is stocked

1:39.9

with less loyalists. They're trying to find a way to forgive or hope that they can be moved past

1:45.3

because the belief is that should Leslie Moonvez be knocked from his perch, and it could happen at any

1:50.2

time with another allegation or a few more allegations, they feel that Sherry Redstone will take

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