Documentary, Netflix, US television, Television, Culture, Television & radio, Mormonism
In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence
Film-making effects change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former investigative journalist for Frontline, will testify to that.
“These films that I’m making,” says Dretzin, “that other documentarians are making, are often more effective than the legal system at effecting change; psychological change and also sometimes systemic and criminal change.”
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