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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2013
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JT LeRoy was a teen prostitute, addicted to heroin and infected with HIV, when a therapist encouraged him to write his life story. Buoyed by a cadre of celebrities, he published three critically acclaimed books, including Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. But as his fame skyrocketed, the shocking truth emerged: JT was not what he seemed. What followed was a downfall as bewildering as it was tragic. Drawn into LeRoy’s inner circle before the truth came to light, filmmaker Marjorie Sturm was misled like many others. Through intimate interviews with many close to the tarnished figure, Sturm attempts to untangle what really happened, and in the process explores how his deception called into question not only the value of LeRoy’s writing absent authenticity, but our culture’s complicity with the author’s seductive cult of personality.
The authorized and unauthorized documentary about the JT LeRoy scandal, "The Cult of JT LeRoy", won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at the SF Indie Fest and Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival in 2015 and played in top tier festivals around the world. The film had its' International Premiere at HOTDOCS in Toronto in 2015 and its' U.S. premiere at DOCNYC.
