Amy Berg on 'Prophet's Prey' and 'An Open Secret'

The Business

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Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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With her new film Prophet's Prey, documentarian Amy Berg takes on the polygamous, fundamentalist arm of the Mormon Church. She tells us about encountering unwilling subjects and also addresses her Hollywood child sex abuse doc, An Open Secret.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having. You can find Left, Right and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:18.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:24.7	They blocked us into these kind of driveways and my DP got hit in the face with the rock by a
0:30.8	seven-year-old boy. They were very expressive with, you know, how they felt about us being there.
0:37.4	Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg has previously made films
0:41.4	exposing child sex abuse in the Catholic Church and in Hollywood.
0:46.1	Her new doc, Prophets Pray, looks at a manifestation of the same sickness in a different world,
0:51.7	the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:56.0	This breakaway faction of the Mormon Church forces girls as young as 12 into polygamous
1:01.0	marriages. Berg talks about shooting in hostile territory and addresses her little scene doc from this
1:07.0	past summer, an open secret, which deals with allegations of abuse of underage boys in
1:12.6	the entertainment industry. But first on the news banter, Michael Moore's newest film has finally
1:18.1	found a home at an even newer company, and what the heck is going to go on in the upcoming
1:23.3	HBO sci-fi series Westworld. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.
1:33.8	I am joined by my buddy in banter, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine.
1:38.1	Hello, Michael.
1:38.7	Hello, Kim.
1:39.7	So, Michael, I have not read the Michael Crichton novel,world, nor have I seen the 1973 film that he apparently made based on this book.
1:50.2	But it caused quite a little kerfuffle in the industry this week because HBO is making a series based on Westworld, which is about a dark, I'm quoting, a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin, close quote. This is from the HBO website. They are making this thing. It's supposed to start in February. Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, you know, names you've heard of.
2:15.2	Executive producer, J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan.
2:18.0	So it's got some heavy...
2:19.8	Some heavy hitters.
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