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<p>In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence</p><p>Film-making effects change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former investigative journalist for Frontline, will testify to that.</p><p>“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.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/08/trust-me-the-false-prophet-cult-docuseries-mormon">Continue reading...</a>
<p>In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence</p><p>Film-making effects change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former investigative journalist for Frontline, will testify to that.</p><p>“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.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/08/trust-me-the-false-prophet-cult-docuseries-mormon">Continue reading...</a>