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Gloriavale doco shouldn’t be just ‘clickbait entertainment’

March 25, 2024: | 1 News | Ryan Boswell | The psychological, physical, and emotional abuse at Gloriavale is “not just clickbait entertainment”, Liz Gregory from the Gloriavale Leavers’ Trust says. Escaping Utopia is a three-part documentary speaking to leavers of the sect, giving unprecedented access to Gloriavale’s inner workings, the unravelling of…

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Review: Escaping Utopia shines a new light on the true darkness of Gloriavale

March 25, 2024: | The Spinoff | Tara Ward | TVNZ’s new documentary series about leaving the West Coast religious community isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a necessary one. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. Pilgrim Christian is driving along a gravel road in…

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Gloriavale’s treatment of woman ‘disturbing’, says former MP after visit to community

March 25, 2024: | NZ Herald | Rachel Maher | Former MP Catherine Delahunty has revealed her brush with the Gloriavale community left her “disturbed” and “heartbroken” for the women there. The ex-Green MP said during a 2015 visit to the West Coast Christian community she witnessed institutionalised misogyny that left women without…

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Escaping Utopia: TVNZ’s Gloriavale documentary revisits the secretive community – The Front Page

March 25, 2024: | NZ Herald | A new documentary has revisited the origins of the Gloriavale Christian Community, as ongoing legal challenges continue to threaten the secretive commune’s future. The first episode of Escaping Utopia aired on TVNZ 1 last night, with two more episodes to follow tonight and tomorrow. Series co-director Justin Pemberton…

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Gloriavale faces ‘death by a thousand cuts’ as investigators circle

March 24, 2024: | The Press | Joanne Naish | Hundreds of people have fled Gloriavale in recent years amid disturbing revelations of physical and sexual abuse against children, and allegations of slavery. Could the reclusive religious community collapse, and what impact would that have? Joanne Naish investigates. When Rosanna Overcomer and her…

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Escaping Utopia, gripping, brave and stranger than fiction

March 24, 2024: | Stuff | Amberleigh Jack | RECAP: It’s all too easy to look at any situation where someone – especially women – appear oppressed, controlled or abused and think, “why don’t they just leave”? But the first part of the documentary series, Escaping Utopia, explores the planning that goes into the clandestine escapes from the…

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Justin Pemberton: Escaping Utopia director explores the inner workings of Gloriavale through interviews with escapees

March 24, 2024: | Newstalk ZB |The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin Description The insular Greymouth community of Gloriavale has kept Kiwis enthralled as testimonies keep emerging. A new TVNZ documentary, Escaping Utopia, promises to unveil the stories of people who’ve left the community- and the struggles they’ve endured. Co-director Justin Pemberton says Gloriavale…

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Escaping Utopia: Gloriavale former member Theophila Pratt on what it’s really like to leave

March 24, 2024: | NZ Herald | Emma Gleason | What’s it like to leave Gloriavale? A new TVNZ documentary, Escaping Utopia, seeks to answer that question and one former member, Theophila Pratt, tells the Herald what her exit was really like. “You were trying to save yourself all the time,” Theophila Pratt says of her…

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Leading NZ Lawyer Challenges The “Voyeurs Of New Zealand” As Gloriavale Is Back In The Public Eye Once Again

March 24, 2024: | Scoop |Press Release |Dennis Gates Voyeurs of New Zealand, your next Gloriavale fix is here. Drip fed on TVNZ over three consecutive nights, Escaping Utopia brings into living rooms across the country, the desperate attempts to get away from the West Coast cult. Once again, the reality of life in Gloriavale…

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Escaping Utopia: What it takes to break free from Gloriavale

March 23, 2024: | RNZ | Saturday Morning | Around 600 people (including around 350 children) currently live at Gloriavale – a strict Christian community on the West Coast. Listen to the interview Escaping Utopia airs at 8.30pm on Sunday 24 March and continues Monday and Tuesday. Overcomer, who left Glorivale with her family in…

Gloriavale doco shouldn’t be just ‘clickbait entertainment’

Review: Escaping Utopia shines a new light on the true darkness of Gloriavale

Gloriavale’s treatment of woman ‘disturbing’, says former MP after visit to community

Escaping Utopia: TVNZ’s Gloriavale documentary revisits the secretive community – The Front Page

Gloriavale faces ‘death by a thousand cuts’ as investigators circle

Escaping Utopia, gripping, brave and stranger than fiction

Justin Pemberton: Escaping Utopia director explores the inner workings of Gloriavale through interviews with escapees

Escaping Utopia: Gloriavale former member Theophila Pratt on what it’s really like to leave

Leading NZ Lawyer Challenges The “Voyeurs Of New Zealand” As Gloriavale Is Back In The Public Eye Once Again

Escaping Utopia: What it takes to break free from Gloriavale

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