Proposed BK "Cult" Television Documentary
Posted: 21 Jun 2007Cult experts and UK case studies needed!
My name is Becky and I work for an independent television production company in the UK called Monkey. We are developing a documentary series for the BBC looking at cults, and the devastating impact they can have on people's lives - both those who become involved in the groups, and their families. We are particularly interested in the fact that cults often target students and young people. We want to understand the subject as fully as possible, and make a sensitive, informative series of films.
To help us do this, we would really like to speak to anyone who knows a young person who has fallen prey to a cult - whether it's a son, daughter, Brother, Sister or friend, and who has cut off ties with friends and family. We are looking for current case studies only.
This would be an anonymous and off the record chat, and all conversations with family members will be completely confidential. This is purely for research purposes and to present as a case study to the commissioner at the BBC. There is no obligation to take part in the programme.
To give you a bit more information about us, Monkey is an award-winning production company, which specialises in both factual and entertainment programming. We have recently produced 'The Charlotte Church Show' for Channel 4 and our factual output includes 'Trapped By My Twin', an observational documentary about a set of identical twins with a very co-dependent relationship, which went out as part of the Cutting Edge strand on Channel 4 last month, as well as a Dispatches documentary about the NHS postcode lottery, presented by Jon Snow, which went out in November 2006. Monkey also produced the House of Obsessive Compulsives, which has just won a Mental Health Award, and followed three people with extreme obsessive compulsive disorders as they went through an intensive treatment plan led by Professor Paul Salkovskis and his team at the Maudsley Hospital at London’s Institute of Psychiatry.
Please check out our website to see some of the other programmes we have produced: Monkey Kingdom.
If you have a story to tell please email me at: catl@monkeykingdom.com
My name is Becky and I work for an independent television production company in the UK called Monkey. We are developing a documentary series for the BBC looking at cults, and the devastating impact they can have on people's lives - both those who become involved in the groups, and their families. We are particularly interested in the fact that cults often target students and young people. We want to understand the subject as fully as possible, and make a sensitive, informative series of films.
To help us do this, we would really like to speak to anyone who knows a young person who has fallen prey to a cult - whether it's a son, daughter, Brother, Sister or friend, and who has cut off ties with friends and family. We are looking for current case studies only.
This would be an anonymous and off the record chat, and all conversations with family members will be completely confidential. This is purely for research purposes and to present as a case study to the commissioner at the BBC. There is no obligation to take part in the programme.
To give you a bit more information about us, Monkey is an award-winning production company, which specialises in both factual and entertainment programming. We have recently produced 'The Charlotte Church Show' for Channel 4 and our factual output includes 'Trapped By My Twin', an observational documentary about a set of identical twins with a very co-dependent relationship, which went out as part of the Cutting Edge strand on Channel 4 last month, as well as a Dispatches documentary about the NHS postcode lottery, presented by Jon Snow, which went out in November 2006. Monkey also produced the House of Obsessive Compulsives, which has just won a Mental Health Award, and followed three people with extreme obsessive compulsive disorders as they went through an intensive treatment plan led by Professor Paul Salkovskis and his team at the Maudsley Hospital at London’s Institute of Psychiatry.
Please check out our website to see some of the other programmes we have produced: Monkey Kingdom.
If you have a story to tell please email me at: catl@monkeykingdom.com
