Editing But I'm a Cheerleader (section)

===Background===
''But I'm a Cheerleader'' was Babbit's first feature film,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2012-02-07 |title= Interview with Jamie Babbit |url=http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/People/interviews/62004/jamiebabbit.html |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=[[AfterEllen]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207185256/http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/People/interviews/62004/jamiebabbit.html |archive-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> following two [[short subject|short films]], ''Frog Crossing'' (1996) and ''[[Sleeping Beauties (film)|Sleeping Beauties]]'' (1999). Babbit and producer Andrea Sperling secured financing from Michael Burns, vice president of [[Prudential Financial|Prudential Insurance]], after showing him the script at Sundance festival.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Dixon |first=Wheeler Winston |title=Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-7914-6156-4 |editor-last=Duchovnay |editor-first=Gerald |pages=153–165 |chapter=Jamie Babbit}}</ref> Their one-sentence [[Pitch (filmmaking)|pitch]] was "Two high-school girls fall in love at a reparative therapy camp."<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Gideonse |first=Ted |date=2000 |title=The New Girls Of Summer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP1 |journal=Out |pages=54–61}}</ref> Burns gave an initial budget of [[US$]]500,000 which was increased to US$1 million when the film went into production.<ref name=":2" />