“As a trans film-maker, I want to create the kind of complicated work that I was never able to see,” rhysernst says
MOST INDEPENDENT film-makers are eager for publicity before their movies hit cinemas. Rhys Ernst is enjoying far more than most for “Adam”, his feature debut. The problem is that much of this attention is coming from those who want the film to fail at the box office. Hundreds on Twitter and Instagram are demanding that people #BoycottAdam. Several change.org petitions are calling for the film to be banned, and they have collected thousands of signatures.
Mindful of the book’s reputation, Mr Ernst was apprehensive when the film’s producers, Howard Gertler and James Schamus, asked him to read the script, which Ms Schrag also wrote. But he was “stunned” by just how much it defied his expectations, he says. What he read felt impressively subversive, and he immediately began envisioning what he would do with it.
Starring Nicholas Alexander as a believably guileless Adam, the film is thoroughly charming. It earned broad acclaim when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and Mr Ernst received a special mention for directing when the film screened at OutFest in Los Angeles in July. Most people who see the film seem won over. “The things that people are afraid of seeing in this movie are not in this movie,” says Mr Ernst.
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