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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Radheyan Simonpillai

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

A still from Trust Me: The False Prophet
A still from Trust Me: The False Prophet. Photograph: Netflix

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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