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Dot Reidelbach
is a documentary filmmaker with a background in business, along with an extensive history of foreign travel and research. She specializes in films about unusual people in strange circumstances. She spent 15 years researching Mormon history prior to directing Banking on Heaven. Her short films have been screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, and have won Best Film, Best Director, Audience Favorite, and Best Short Documentary.

FILMOGRAPHY

Director: Lives of Marilyn Sunderman, Scotty’s Castle, Storming Motown, Midgets in Hollywood, Hidden in the Heartland.

Producer: Hana (Best Actress).

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Laurie Allen
Laurie Allen was born into the infamous and violent LeBaron polygamous sect. Her uncle Ervil LeBaron killed 28 people, and became known as the Mormon Manson. Her cousin Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron is on the FBI's Most Wanted list. When she was eight, a polygamist kidnapped Laurie from Chihuahua, got in some trouble with the law, and eventually fled to Central America, keeping her as his interpreter. Laurie fought off the religious indoctrination, escaped at age sixteen, and found passage back to the United States. Fluent in Spanish and dedicated to freedom and human rights, she earned a college degree and went on to film school. BANKING ON HEAVEN exposes a cult similar to the one that nearly absorbed her when she was very young and vulnerable.

Now Laurie Allen is a filmmaker with a vision and a goal. Her background makes her the one filmmaker who could produce BANKING ON HEAVEN, a documentary about the abuse and corruption inherent in America’s polygamous sects.

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