The filmmakers behind the anticipated fall film Boy Erased
along with the creators of the widely acclaimed Radiolab podcast
and radio program will launch a new podcast, UnErased,
this fall. Read More Here
BOY
ERASED
FILMMAKERS TO PRODUCE ‘UNERASED’ PODCAST WITH THE CREATORS OF
RADIOLAB
UnErased podcast will uncover the history and damaging
effects conversion therapy has on LGBTQIA youth in America
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Limina House, Focus Features, and Anonymous Content announced
that the filmmakers behind the anticipated fall film Boy
Erased along with the creators of the widely acclaimed Radiolab
podcast and radio program will launch a new podcast, UnErased,
this fall. The four-part podcast series will reveal the controversial
truth behind the “pray away the gay” movement and conversion
therapy in America. The series will be produced by Limina House,
which was started by Mikel Ellcessor, the co-creator with Jad
Abumrad of Radiolab. The UnErased production team is
Ellcessor, Kat Aaron, Alice Quinlan and Shima Oliaee with the
author of the Boy Erased memoir Garrard Conley, whose
life story and experience with conversion therapy is the basis
for the film, and the film’s co-producer and cast member David
Joseph Craig. Abumrad provided editorial oversight and conducted
key interviews.
It
is estimated that between 700,000 - 800,000 Americans have been
subjected to conversion therapy – damaging and harmful practices
designed to “convert” someone from gay to straight. Using original
reporting, sound rich design and deep interviews with individuals
who have experienced, led and criticized conversion therapy,
UnErased’s four episodes will reveal a deeply troubling
part of our culture. Working with The Mattachine Society, one
of the foremost LGBTQIA historical archives and a major collector
of conversion therapy source material, UnErased brings
virtually unheard recordings and documents from key conversion
therapy groups and leaders into the light and combines them
with original interviews to reveal a complex, and increasingly
global, attack on the health and well-being of LGBTQIA youth.
“This series, the original journalism that’s taking place, the
stories that are being brought into the light, could not have
happened without Joel and Garrard, David, Kerry and everyone
at Focus, Anonymous and Stitcher. This is an incredible demonstration
of people across creative disciplines pulling together to test
new boundaries for storytelling, content delivery and community
engagement. It’s our hope that fans of the film, Garrard’s memoir
and the podcast series will immerse themselves in all of these
different works so they can have a richer understanding of the
context of Garrard’s story. It’s a story that is shared by hundreds
of thousands of others and goes on today,” said Limina House
producer Mikel Ellcessor. “Limina House is dedicated to creating
work where new worlds of insight and emotion open up and we
learn something new about ourselves and the lives we lead. Being
a part of Boy Erased is a privilege.”
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ERASED – Official Trailer [HD] – In Theaters November
“Boy Erased tells a deeply personal story; UnErased
tells the whole story. Combining one of the most comprehensive
conversion therapy histories to date, survivors’ accounts, and
exclusive interviews, UnErased will pick up where the
memoir and film leave off,” commented Garrard Conley and David
Joseph Craig. “We are honored and thrilled to have partnered
with podcast-juggernauts Jad Abumrad and Mikel Ellcessor and
are working closely with the Mattachine Society of D.C. and
other LGBTQ advocacy groups to usher our queer stories into
the permanent archives of American history, where they have
always belonged.”
UnErased will be made available exclusively to Stitcher
Premium subscribers in the weeks before the film’s November
2 release. It will be available everywhere you get podcasts
coinciding with the film’s limited release. Limina House is
producing the series for Focus Features and Anonymous Content.
The series is being distributed by Stitcher. UnErased
is not a Radiolab production.
From
writer/director Joel Edgerton, Boy Erased tells the story
of Jared (Academy Award® nominee Lucas Hedges), the son of a
Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his
parents (Academy Award® winners Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe)
at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a conversion
therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his
family, friends, and faith. Boy Erased is the true story
of one young man’s struggle to find himself while being forced
to question every aspect of his identity.
Edgerton produces alongside Anonymous Content’s Kerry Kohansky-Roberts
and Steve Golin, an Academy Award-winning producer of Best Picture
Oscar winner Spotlight. Troye Sivan, Xavier Dolan, Cherry Jones,
Michael “Flea” Balzary, Joe Alwyn, Emily Hinkler, Jesse LaTourette,
David Joseph Craig, Théodore Pellerin, Madelyn Cline, and Britton
Sear co-star. Boy Erased will be released by Focus Features
on November 2, 2018.
About Focus Features
Focus Features acquires and produces specialty films for the
global market and holds a library of iconic movies from fearless
filmmakers. Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus
include Jason Reitman’s new comedy Tully, starring Charlize
Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,
director Morgan Neville’s documentary on Mister Rogers; Lenny
Abrahamson’s atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger;
Joel Edgerton’s coming-of-age and coming-out drama Boy Erased,
about a boy’s true-life experience at a conversion therapy program,
starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary,
Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie
as Elizabeth I; On the Basis of Sex, the real-life drama
of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg staring Felicity
Jones and Armie Hammer; Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language drama
Everybody Knows (Todos lo Saben) starring Javier Bardem
and Penélope Cruz; Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial
debut Mustang; and Spike Lee’s new film BlacKkKlansman.
Focus is part of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG),
which produces, acquires, markets and distributes filmed entertainment
worldwide in various media formats for theatrical, home entertainment,
television and other distribution platforms, as well as consumer
products, interactive gaming and live entertainment. UFEG’s
global division also includes Universal Pictures, Universal
Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Brand Development, Fandango,
DreamWorks Animation Film and Television and Awesomeness. UFEG
is part of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and
entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing
of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.
NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news
and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company,
significant television production operations, a leading television
stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a suite of leading
Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast
Corporation.