Chiaki Yanagimoto and Ben Braun helmed the U.S. Documentary Competition title.
CHIAKI YANAGIMOTO
I was in middle school. I grew up in a place called in Yamanashi, the countryside of Japan and at 11 years old, when it happened, until that point I didn’t really know about the group. When the attack happened it was huge news and it didn’t take us too long to realize that this group is behind this crime. Then I personally found out that their largest headquarter is in Yamanashi. I remember all the parents telling their kids to be careful with people in white robes roaming in the mountains.
The archival materials in the film are expansive. A lot of footage that was shown looked contemporaneous and seemed to be coming from inside the cult. How did you find it?It’s totally miraculous. The film has had so many challenges and the one from the get-go was when we started researching it and we would go on YouTube and we would see little clips of things that were just out there in the ether.
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