271: Sharon Liese | Director of Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Sharon Liese is an Emmy® winning filmmaker who is known for having her finger on the Zeitgeist. Her documentary projects have aired on premium networks and streamers and screened at many prestigious film festivals.
Sharon is the director of Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals, a docuseries exposing the predatory and insidious behavior within Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches, and the struggles of survivors to find justice.
Premiering on Disney+ in 2022, Liese's short documentary, The Flagmakers, was Oscar® shortlisted, nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award, and nominated for an Emmy. The film also won Best Documentary Short at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, an Audience Award at the Denver International Film Festival, and has been optioned for a Broadway musical produced by Mark Gordon.
In January 2023, her short film, Parker, had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Liese's award-winning feature documentary, Transhood, premiered on HBO in 2020 and was featured on The Ellen Show and GMA. The film won several awards, including Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at AFI Docs. Liese also created and executive produced Pink Collar Crimes, a true crime series for CBS.
Liese created and directed the award-winning documentary series High School Confidential, filmed over four years, which broke ratings records on WEtv. She also directed and produced The Gnomist (CNN Films), which had its World Premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win 15 festival awards, including the Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at LA Shorts Fest, qualifying it for Oscar consideration before being acquired by CNN Films.
Liese's film, Selfie, created in collaboration with Dove and The Sundance Institute, premiered during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival before being the focus of a special multi-episode series on Good Morning America.
In addition to producing and directing documentary programming for Disney+, HBO, CNN, MTV, FOX, Lifetime, WEtv, OWN, DiscoveryID, and PBS, Sharon Liese is the founder and owner of Herizon Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.4 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective |
| 0:25.0 | of the survivors. |
| 0:26.8 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.8 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.4 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinsky. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. On today's episode, I'm sitting down with |
| 0:43.3 | Emmy-winning director, Sharon Lease. Sharon is the director of Let Us Pray, a four-part |
| 0:48.9 | documentary series exposing abuse with an independent fundamental Baptist churches. On today's episode, we talk about |
| 0:55.9 | working on this project for over three years, some of the things that she wished she didn't |
| 1:01.0 | have to cut from the final project, and her biggest takeaways is someone who is experiencing |
| 1:05.8 | the IFB for the very first time through this documentary series. We cover all this and so much more, and you're not going to want to miss a single second. |
| 1:14.9 | So here's my interview with Sharon Lease. |
| 1:17.8 | All right, Sharon, welcome to the show. |
| 1:20.2 | Nice to be here. |
| 1:21.3 | The roles are reversed. |
| 1:22.8 | I know. |
| 1:23.4 | I was going to say it feels good to have you on the other side of the camera. |
| 1:27.3 | I guess we're both on camera, but I get to have you on the other side of the camera. I guess we're both on |
| 1:28.0 | camera, but I get to ask you the questions, which is, which is pretty exciting. And as everybody |
| 1:33.8 | already heard in the intro, you directed Let Us Pray, which has made quite a splash. It was in the |
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