27 episodes
Witness Underground Podcast Scott Homan
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Artists Escaping Cults - Podcast - Documentary - Series Follow the Witness Underground Podcast as we dive in to stories of artists escaping cults from around the globe. Build that ecclectic playlist with art from people who successfully navigated cult mind control. Created by the team who brought the award winning feature documentary by the same name, the director and featured artists interview fascinating artists, musicians, actors, directors, authors etc. who also left a cult. Through making our documentary, artists all over the world emerged with amazing music, art, and stories. Listen in and let us know what you think. Film short synopsis:Witness Underground is a feature documentary that reveals the insular DIY music community that emerged within a high-control cult. Music, fame, and success are typically forbidden in this faith, who instruct its members to “beware of independent thinking.”
The artists at the heart of the music scene have their faith tested in deeply personal ways. They battle for positive mental health and push the boundaries of their religion’s norms, where leaving means being banned from interacting with your entire family and social circle for life.
Although severely restricted, they create the record label Nuclear Gopher and produce over 30 albums of earnest and personal music that spans singer/songwriter, riot grrrl, psychedelic rock, pop, EDM, shoegaze, and post-rock. Carefully curated songs and live performances punctuate their stories of friendship, deep loss, and personal growth.Watch the film - Follow the podcastWitnessUnderground.comWatch:Vimeo.com/ondemand/witnessunderground Patreon.com/WitnessUndergroundYoutube.com/@WitnessUnderground
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This woman was interrogated and abused by cult leaders
This woman was interrogated by cult leaders. Female Hollywood writer, actor, director, Bonnie Root, explores the system of manipulation, abuse, and control in the Jehovah Witnesses and the film industry. We dive into her experience with a cult Judicial Committee, sexual interrogations, her award-winning film, "Sissy" about grooming of teens, The Movie, a physchological thriller, and her new ExJW film coming out, Diary of Heather Keating, a narrative exposing the Judicial Committee for the abu...
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Asheville AVL Film director - Audio Engineer at AuxBus - Libsyn
Ryan DuVal, software engineer and old friend from Colorado, was the only person I asked to help produce Witness Underground. He flew up from Asheville North Carolina as our producer in Minneapolis and was the guiding light for multiple editing revisions.He brought a fresh perspective to the project that became essential in telling this deep nuanced story. This episode was recorded at the Auxbus podcast studio in Asheville, a start-up where he pioneered the audio software we recorded this on. ...
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Devil Drinks Mocha - Story Editor and Novelist
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MXHELuzxVbYSiân Walmsley Krubeck did the heavy lifting of story editing and color for our feature documentary Witness Underground. In this episode we dive into the process, challenges, clashes, pressures, frustrations, and successes of working together in our first discussion after creating the film. She has since worked on several other films and also written her first novel. All of Siân's links:https://linktr.ee/sjkrubeckRead The Devil Drinks ...
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Former Bethel Elder Became a Blues Rocker
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/i8zV6W-lKiE Subscribe if you like this content.Former Elder in Jehovah's Witnesses, Gary Alt, was even a long-time "Bethelite," a worker at their world headquarters called Watchtower (a book publishing company masquerading as a religion). One of his contributions while there was cultural. He was asked to host a monthly music entertainment night at Bethel.Check out his songs:"Here are a handful of songs you might be interested in. The "st...
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Cult Writer Goes Wild With Outlaw Films
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kyhAPbxw9Rs Subscribe there if you like this content.Our Co-Producer, Anthony Mathenia, meets up with Scott Homan and Ryan Sutter in an engaging conversation highlighting his film work with Outlaw films, and the four books he wrote.From Outlaw FilmsFree to watch with ads on Tubi:Dope Men: America's First Drug Cartelhttps://tubitv.com/movies/100008549/dope-men-america-s-first-drug-cartelNight Lifehttps://tubitv.com/movies/100009015/night-lifeNew ...
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Hypnotherapy - Jonam Ross - Kickstarter Special
Watch this special episode on YouTube:https://youtube.com/live/cYA8AmHud-4Rewrite your subconscious with Jonam's self-authorship hypnotherapy program! We jump into how it works and the process you'll experience when you start.Courteously made available to backers, Jonam Ross's course can help with recovery from trauma and much more.You will learn how to become your own hypnotherapist and build a high degree of competence in working with your unconscious mind and leveraging unconscious resourc...