Program 35: The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Desiree Akhavan / ASL Interpreted, Next Generation Series, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 13 / USA / 2018 / 91 mins

Based on the best-selling novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is one of the most critically-acclaimed films in this year’s festival.

Program 39: Cherry Grove Stories

Michael Fisher / ASL Interpreted, Documentary Feature, Sunday, Oct. 14 / USA / 2017 / 77 mins

Fire Island, now famous for being a gay mecca each summer, used to be a quiet unheralded vacation spot. But in the 1950s, a cluster of gay and lesbian owned cottages popped up in the island’s tiny hamlet of Cherry Grove. Soon Cherry Grove would develop into our country’s first gay haven: a place where LGBT people could escape the oppression of day-to-day life and simply be themselves. In Cherry Grove Stories, long-time residents and vacationers tell the tales of one of our very first safe spaces.