CULTURE | DESIREE AKHAVAN
London-based New Yorker Desiree Akhavan first came across Emily M. Danforth’s book The Miseducation Of Cameron Post after being given an advance copy by a friend. “I read it and I loved it. I then gave it to my girlfriend at the time, and she read it, and she loved it. We both agreed it needed to be turned into a film, but I never thought that I could do it – it was so much bigger than me, so much more emotional and more intelligent than anything I’d done before…”