Stuff – Gloriavale: Enlightening, heartrending doco lifts the veil on ‘NZ’s secret cult’

August 17, 2022: By James Croot – Stuff – 17/08/2022 Gloriavale (M, 89mins) **** Lifting the veil on “New Zealand’s secret cult” and its apparent fall from utopian ideal to Animal Farm-esque nightmare, this enlightening, heartrending, rage-inducing documentary follows former members as they battle for justice – and reform – from the outside.…

RNZ – Gloriavale’s secrets and the fight for justice

August 16, 2022: By RNZ – Nine To Noon – 16/08/2022 A new documentary gives an eye-opening look into the secrets of the Gloriavale Christian Community and the fight for justice by a group of former residents and supporters. The film simply entitled Gloriavale features members of the Ready family as they mount…

Ashburton gets sneak preview of Gloriavale documentary

August 11, 2022: By Malcolm Hopwood | Ashburton Guardian | Ashburton audiences will have an advance screening this Sunday of a documentary on Gloriavale that opens in New Zealand cinemas the following week. Entitled Gloriavale, the documentary directed by Noel Smyth and Fergus Grady, examines the widespread abuse inside the Gloriavale cult and…

Woman’s Day – Life after Gloriavale: ‘Our nightmare is finally over!’

August 11, 2022: By Sophie Neville – Woman’s Day – 11/08/2022 Timaru mum Virginia reveals why she and her family had to escape the controversial community. For 27 years, former Gloriavale resident Virginia Courage was tormented by nightmares. She’d often lie awake in the cramped bunk room she shared with her husband and…

Capsule – Gloriavale Documentary

August 3, 2022: By Emma Clifton – Capsule – 03/08/2022 A new documentary, Gloriavale, follows a family from the secretive religious community: siblings John and Virginia, who have both left Gloriavale, and their mother Sharon, who remains. It covers the serious allegations against the Gloriavale leaders, which include sexual abuse, neglect and slavery.…