A teen lesbian sent to “pray away the gay,” a reformed member of the Ku Klux Klan, a crusader against child slavery and a family struggling against an unfair prison sentence were front and center in the winners at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
“The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” director Desiree Akhavan’s drama about a girl sent to a Christian “gay conversion” camp, took the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic competition.
The Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic films went to director-writer Andrew Heckler’s “Burden,” based on the true story of a South Carolina man (played by Garrett Hedlund) who left the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a black minister (played by Forest Whitaker).