B y now, shortly after annually into the film festival routine, filmmaker Wes Hurley, ’04, has gotten always the questions. They usually have become inescapable shortly after people see his scrappy autobiographical flick, “Potato Dreams of The united states.” In which he can’t extremely fault someone.

“It is a crazy facts,” Hurley admits regarding the his queer future-of-age memoir you to definitely initiate regarding the failing U.S.S.Roentgen. and you may centers around young Hurley along with his mom, a prison derican video and later emigrated to help you Seattle whenever she turned a post-acquisition fiance. “At every Q&A great, I share with anybody that it is 99.9% genuine. I did not build some thing up from the story. It offers an unique version of tone to help you it. […]