‘I have to betray them to save them’: how undercover film-makers exposed a sinister polygamous cult

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 affects 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 affecting change; psychological change and also sometimes systemic and criminal change.” Continue reading...

By Radheyan Simonpillai