Showtime Documentary Films Sets Premiere Date For PROPHET’S PREY

By YEC-Admin
August 5, 2015
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In a press release:

SHOWTIME^® SETS WORLD TELEVISION PREMIERE DATE FOR “PROPHET’S PREY”

Highly-Anticipated Documentary To Premiere On

Saturday, October 10^th

Photo: ©2015 Showtime

LOS ANGELES – August 04, 2015 – The highly-anticipated documentary PROPHET’S PREY will make its world television premiere on Saturday, October 10^th at 9 PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME. The film, focused on the tyrannical cult leader Warren Jeffs, debuts theatrically nationwide under the SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY FILMS^® banner on September 18^th in New York and on Friday, September 25^th in Los Angeles, followed by additional cities including San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City, among others, on Friday, October 2^nd. An official selection of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and directed by Academy Award^® nominee Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, West of Memphis), PROPHET’S PREY is a unique and intricate look inside the world of one of the largest cults currently operating in the United States, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).

When Jeffs assumed leadership of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints in 2002, he brought his dictatorial and sadistic desires to bear on a community ripe for exploitation. The FLDS was already a paternalistic religion with a history of polygamous and under-aged marriage, and Warren incorporated and expanded these illegal practices using his power to religiously justify rape and pederasty. Though he was placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list and, eventually, captured and sentenced to life in prison, Jeffs continues to prey on the FLDS community in absentia, his power largely unchecked and unchallenged to this very day.

PROPHET’S PREY is written and directed by Berg who also serves as an executive producer. The film is based on the book by Sam Brower, Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints. Dustin Lance Black, Shannon Costello, Anna Culp, Geralyn Dreyfous, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Erica Huggins, Jon Krakauer and Regina Scully also serve as executive producers. Brower and Katherine LeBlond serve as the documentary’s producer with music by Warren Ellis and Nick Cave, longtime collaborators with Berg. Cave leant his voice as the narrator, and he and Ellis composed the haunting score together.