
169 - HEAVEN'S GATE: THE CULT OF CULTS director Clay Tweel and producer Shannon Riggs
Published on Mar 29
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<p>George and Paco talk to the filmmaking team behind the HBO docuseries - <strong><em>Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults</em></strong>. Director and Producer Clay Tweel and Producer Shannon Riggs chronicled the three-decade long saga of Marshall Appelwhite and Bonnie Nettles (AKA “Do and Ti”) who recruited scores of people to their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">alien-worshipping religious cult</a> starting in the mid -'70s. Interviewing former group members, cult experts, and family left behind, the four-part series goes beyond the headlines of this little-understood group that ended in a mass suicide in Southern California in 1997.</p><p>Clay Tweel is a documentary director/producer/editor whos works include <em>Make Believe</em>, <em>Print the Legend,</em> personal Sup Doc favorite <a href="https://supdocpodcast.com/podcast/ep-101-finders-keepers-with-comedian-chris-storin/" ...