A New Documentary Follows the Undercover Filmmakers Who Took Down a Cult Leader
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When cult expert Christine Marie and her videographer husband, Tolga Katas, moved to Short Creek, Utah, they planned to support a fractured community still reeling from the imprisonment of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon breakaway group whose members practice polygamy. What they found instead was a new FLDS leader claiming divine authority — and evidence of abuse they couldn’t ignore.
Coming to Netflix April 8, Trust Me: The False Prophet chronicles the rise of Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed heir to Jeffs, as seen through the eyes of the couple who infiltrated his inner circle. The four-part documentary series follows Christine and Tolga as they gain Bateman’s trust and uncover evidence of unignorable evil — revealing the depths of his control and the women brave enough to speak up.
Directed by Emmy- and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker Rachel Dretzin (Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey), the series features unprecedented access, never-before-seen footage, and firsthand accounts from inside the group. Dretzin, who decided to get involved after meeting Christine and Tolga and viewing their footage, hopes the series touches a nerve: “Trust Me offers intimate access to a normally closed world — and in doing so, I hope it exposes both the violence that enforced secrecy enables and what it takes to tell the truth when everything is at stake. What these women did matters far beyond their community. It is a blueprint for how to dismantle even the most entrenched systems of abuse.”
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