Sons of Perdition
SONS OF PERDITION takes viewers inside the lives of three teenage boys after they escape from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound on the Utah/Arizona border, the oldest polygamist community in the United States. After leaving Colorado City, the boys join an underground network of other FLDS exiles, condemned by their community and struggling to exist in the alien landscape of mainstream America — without parents, money or education.
Offering private sermons, hidden photographs and insider testimony, “Sons of Perdition” follows the courageous journey of these remarkable teens searching for meaning in a strange new world. The documentary has played to enthusiastic audiences at over 30 film festivals. Filmmaker Magazine called it “an emotional rollercoaster” and the Huffington Post said it’s “a penetrating, insightful and riveting documentary.” Impact Partners and BBC Storyville present A Left Turn Films production in association with Motto Pictures and Cactus Three. The film is directed by Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten and produced by Julie Goldman, Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten.
SONS OF PERDITION takes viewers inside the lives of three teenage boys after they escape from the choke hold of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a secretive polygamist sect located on the remote Utah/Arizona border. After leaving Colorado City, the nation’s oldest polygamist compound, the boys join an underground network of other FLDS exiles, condemned to hell by their community and struggling to exist in the alien landscape of mainstream America — without parents, money or education.
SONS OF PERDITION is a critical look at faith, family and religious extremism, offering private sermons, hidden photographs and insider testimony, as it follows the courageous journey of these remarkable teens. The documentary has played to enthusiastic audiences at over 30 film festivals and is the second film to air as part of the OWN Documentary Club.
The film is directed by Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten and produced by Julie Goldman, Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten. Measom and Merten are partners in Left Turn Films, a full service boutique production
company. Impact Partners and BBC Storyville, in association with Motto Pictures and
Cactus Three, made Sons of Perdition possible.
