MUBI announces "Camp in Session" tour for writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a highly anticipated slasher movie that hits theaters on August 7 in the U.S. It's the director's follow-up to 2024's stellar I Saw the TV Glow. Before its wide release, Schoenbrun is embarking on a North American tour in select cities to screen the movie and partake in Q & As. The director will be joined by the movie's star, Hannah Einbinder.

The movie stars Emmy-award winning actresses Einbinder (Hacks) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, Sex Education, Scoop). The film also stars Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald, Quintessa Swindell, and Jack Haven.

The film's synopsis reads, "After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium."

The movie recently had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which helped to increase its buzz. The special screenings and Q & As will occur in New York, Provincetown, San Francisco, Montreal, Portland, and Medfield, Massachusetts. Here are the dates:

Monday June 1

NewFest Pride

New York, NY

Thursday June 11

Provincetown Film Festival

Provincetown, MA

Saturday, June 27

Frameline50, the 50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival

San Francisco, CA

Friday, July 17

Fantasia Fest

Montreal, QC, Canada

Saturday, July 18

Coolidge Corner Theatre at Camp Rocky Woods

Medfield, MA

Saturday, July 25

Pam Cut Tomorrow Theater

Portland, OR

The movie already earned some positive reviews at Cannes. Jessica Kiang wrote of the film for Variety, "Schoenbrun’s delirious third film is their most accomplished, most persuasive and most playful movie yet." She added that the director's "perennial questions about gender identity and identification are sublimated into a tribute to the slasher genre that also serves as an exploration of the frequently f*cked-up nature of female desire and a manifesto for giving yourself the permission to feel it."

Color us intrigued.

Schoenbrun's first movie was the 2021 coming-of-age psychological horror movie We're All Going to the World's Fair. That was followed up with I Saw the TV Glow. For more information about the "Camp Is in Session" tour, including tickets, click here.

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