# @carterbedloesmith on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs3KPzhn13f
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- **Posted:** 2019-01-20T15:45:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CARTER SMITH (@carterbedloesmith) — https://gondola.cc/carterbedloesmith

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I’m going (back) to Sundance! 🖤 Soooo excited to be heading off to Park City in a few days as a Juror for the Sundance Film Festival Shorts program! My first short film BUGCRUSH won the Jury prize at Sundance when it premiered there back in 2006 - and it doesn’t seem like that long ago I was roaming around Park City handing out little homemade BUGCRUSH buttons and nervously awaiting our screenings. Trying to figure out what exactly I was supposed to be doing while I was there. It was the first time I’d ever even BEEN to a film festival.
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I thought I’d made a movie that only a few dark and artsy freakish types (like me:) would like.... but after BUGCRUSH played, I would hang around outside the theater - anxious to talk to any and everyone about my film. I was shocked at who approached me to say how much it affected them. Middle aged women. Straight teenagers. Hipsters. The film (based on the brilliant short story by scotttreleaven) tapped into some pretty universal themes of longing and desire - and got under the skin of a much wider audience than I ever imagined.
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If anything - the gays were the least receptive to the story of a high school crush gone horribly wrong. When the film later played at queer festivals I discovered gay men seemed to like their films with lots of naked boys and happy feel-good endings (which - spoiler alert - BUGCRUSH - most definitely does NOT have.) Horrible generalization - I know - but it was 2006 and thats what it felt like at the time. Gay Horror and Queer Fear were definitely not “a thing”. Now we’ve got podcasts like #HORRORQUEERS by tracedthurman and bstolemyremote and queerwolfpod and HORROR and GAY are no longer mutually exclusive....
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Who’s going to be at Sundance? What are you excited to see?
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This photo of Donald Cumming as GRANT was taken by srsheridan on set in Bowdoinham, Maine
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