Slash (film)

Slash is a 2016 independent film directed and produced by Clay Liford. 
It was based on a short 2012 film of the same name, also by Clay Liford. "Yes, it is the same director/writer. I can barely express how incredibly angry the short film he made in 2012 (also called Slash) made me. The world of slash that he portrayed was one antithetical to everything I’ve experienced in slash fandom - in his movie, fandom was 100% male and everyone the boyfan encountered was really cruel to him, from the female non-fans to the male fans. I am really upset that he’s pursuing a feature version - I can only hope that someone corrects him (I am so incoherently angry I don’t think it can be me) although since they are already filming I have little hope he’d be open to changes." -- naked-bee, July 4, 2015 
The film focuses on a teen boy who discovers he identifies with the slash fanfiction community—writers who imagine that their favorite male characters are actually queer and in love. It's a tale that intends to be a loving, fun look at the often-marginalized plethora of slash fans on the Internet." New Kickstarter for a slash fiction film unsettles the fandom community 
"Erotic fan fiction is not just a funny concept... SLASH is a comedy that embraces the world of fan fiction and its writers. This is a film that will connect with anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or struggled to figure out where they fit in." Slash, The Kickstarter site 
The film was funded by a Kickstarter campaign: 585 backers pledged $45,232.
== Interviews with Liford==
===Daily Dot===
Both quotes are from New Kickstarter for a slash fiction film unsettles the fandom community.
===SXSW===
Both quotes are from: SXSW: Five Questions for Slash Writer/Director Clay Liford.
===Fansplaining===
Quotes are from an interview conducted by Elizabeth Minkel and Flourish Klink, see A Conversation with Clay Liford.
==Controversies==
Many fans found the film to be problematic in that it erased the female history and voices of slash. Posting unlocked because I'm peeved Other fans found the film's out-datedness to be frustrating and misleading. So here’s the Twitter thread I just made about Slash, the Kickstarted film ostensibly about slash fandom that you guys backlashed against last year. untitled tumblr post by bookshop with screencaps of her twitter rant, 13 March 2016. archived. The Tumblr post had 3,985 notes as of 23 August 2016.
==Further Reading/Meta==
* The One About Erotic 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction (2013)
* Slash at Kickstarter (2015)
* Posting unlocked because I'm peeved, by Franzeska Dickson (2015)
* New Kickstarter for a slash fiction film unsettles the fandom community, by Aja Romano (2015)
* SXSW: Five Questions for Slash Writer/Director Clay Liford, (March 13, 2016)
* SXSW Film Review: ‘Slash’: An engaging comedy-drama about adolescent outsiders who dabble in fan fiction while inventing themselves. (March 14, 2016)
* So here's the Twitter thread, by Aja Romano (2016)
* A Conversation with Clay Liford, interview by Elizabeth Minkel and Flourish Klink (2016)
* What Went Wrong with Slash: The Movie, by Franzeska Dickson (2017)
==References==
category:Slash Fandom
category:Fandom Occurrences
category:2016 Events