The documentary Hail Satan? is to stream on Netflix this month. The program premiered at Sundance in 2019, and won awards. It documents the rise of the Satanic Temple.
The organisation mixes religious practises with aggressive secularism in an attempt to end, what they see as, the evangelical church’s political power in the nation.
The founder of the temple Lucien Greaves is a political activist, he has also set up projects such as The Project Children Project and After School Satan.
Sterling Van Wagenen film-maker and co-founder of the Sundance Festival pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges. The judge sentenced him for six years to life, and hopes the parole officer will ensure he will receive more than the minimum sentence.
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This year’s Sundance Film Festival will showcase a number of movies about the porn, addiction and sex industry. Insiders are dubbing the festival theme this year as the “sexual coming of age”.
Speaking to Reuters, the Sundance Director of Programming Trevor Groth said the films indicate a new audience ‘hungry for the taboo of sexuality and sexual relationships’.
More than a dozen of the movies featured in this years festival will deal with sexual relationships in all their various forms. The number of films of a sexual nature are “part circumstance, part coincidence,” says festival director John Cooper.
”The themes and stories in films we show can be challenging to some, but ultimately, our mission is to show excellent and original work,” says Cooper.
“The times are changing, and relationships are changing,” adds Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford. “It would be a mistake to say this is sex for sex’s sake. The films are looking into sexual relations.”
A biographical film called jOBS about Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs and starring Ashton Kutcher will close out the popular Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah, according to a schedule of the event posted late Monday. Kutcher, currently the star of the TV show, “Two and a Half Men,” is playing the lead role in the movie, which was directed by Joshua Michael Stern. “The true story of one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history, jOBS chronicles the defining 30 years of Steve Jobs life,” according to the film festivals web site. Other subjects of separate biopics at the festival include Jack Kerouac, Richard Cheney, Mariel Hemingway, Jeremy Lin and Anita Hill.
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