Director: Kristen Irving Producers: Julian Cautherley, Kristen Irving
Description:
As her faith community betrays the Jesus they taught her to love, an evangelical filmmaker reckons with the political identity she built her life on. Born in 1981 just as the Religious Right's culture war crashed into visibility, a then evangelical filmmaker discovers the true origins of the pro-life movement. While disbelief initiates her investigation into a veiled history of white supremacy, betrayal forces a deeply personal examination of her own identity, neither of which can be disentangled from the other. As Roe is overturned and abortion bans become routine, this is a call for reckoning for every American, but especially those within the religious subculture that threatens our very Democracy.
Biography:
Kristen Irving In addition to directing and producing True Believer, Kristen is the Director of Advocacy and Engagement at Brave New Films, a nonprofit film company based in Los Angeles. A veteran impact producer, her projects have participated at Tribeca, Sundance, and various other festivals and programs. As the former Director of Social Action and Advocacy at Participant Media, she created social engagement campaigns for documentary and narrative films ranging from CONTAGION to FOOD INC. With TRUE BELIEVER, Kristen participated in the Investigative Reporting Workshop at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, the Camden / Tribeca Film Institute Retreat Sponsored by CNN, and was a Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow. Previously, Kristen worked at the Creative Artists Agency Foundation, and has held various roles in nonprofit organizations including group home Hollygrove, XPRIZE Foundation, and the L.A. Kitchen.
Julian Cautherley is an Emmy-award winning British/Chinese film and TV producer. His projects have been nominated for BAFTAS, Independent Spirit Awards, Emmys, Gotham Awards, DGA awards, PGA awards and have been twice shortlisted for the Oscars. His fiction and non-fiction features, series, VR and commercials have participated at Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festivals amongst others. Forthcoming productions include Of Night and Light, the story of iboga and ibogaine, directed by two-time Academy Award Nominee Lucy Walker, a deep journey into the world of science, history and emotional stories of healing of the plant medicine Ibogaine. He is a member of the Documentary Producer's Alliance, the Producer's Union, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
