“Kill Your Darlings” Writer to Screen Documentary on Pride of the Ocean

Austin Bunn, who co-wrote the script for the Daniel Radcliffe film about a murder in 1944 that draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, will be joined by his cinematographer, editor, and partner, Bob Hazen, where they will be screening their latest documentary, “Lavender Hill: A Love Story” on Pride of the Ocean’s New York to Bermuda Pride Cruise June 1-8, 2014.

Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr in “Kill Your Darlings”

In 1973, a motley group of young writers, artists, political activists, and recent college graduates purchased over 80 acres of land outside West Danby, New York to build, with their own hands, a two story home that became Lavender Hill

The Lavender Hill Commune, circa 1974

Austin Bunn (center) with director John Krokidas
and actor Daniel Radcliffe

Funded, in part, by the Cornell Council for the Arts, “Lavender Hill: A Love Story” uses rare archival 8mm film and interviews with former commune members and gay and lesbian activists and historians to tell the story of the origins and history of one of the few gay and lesbian communes.

“Austin and Bob’s film is perfect for our theme about the 45th anniversary of Stonewall. Gay communes were an important part of our later advancements for LGBT rights. Even I got my feet wet living at the Unicorn News Gay Commune in DC during the early 70’s, along with Dancing Bear, Andy Kupcake, Ellen Strawberry and Michael Bumblebee.”, said John Scagliotti, Pride of the Ocean’s Program Director.

Austin graduated from Yale and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is now an assistant professor in Cornell University’s department of Performing and Media Arts.

Click here to learn more about the cruise and to see available options for joining Austin on this trip to Bermuda.