Tensions rise within the community as Teal wrestles with how to heal her troubled followers.Tensions rise within the community as Teal wrestles with how to heal her troubled followers.Tensions rise within the community as Teal wrestles with how to heal her troubled followers.
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Some filmmakers will do anything to get a shot, including exploit and manipulate people who are in pain
The camera reveals the heart of the filmmaker. The reverence and curiosity a filmmaker feels for their subject matter is captured in their footage as plain as light and grain. A filmmaker's passion and dedication to the truth of the human experience is what makes even the most painful stories beautiful. It's this kind of dignity in filmmaking that speaks to all of us, no matter what our personal beliefs.
The filmmakers of this docuseries, however, clearly have no respect for their fellow human beings or the harm caused by their own reckless actions. They seem to have lied to and manipulated a great many people in the course of fabricating their newest dramatic narrative, even going so far as to doctor footage in order to create a misleading and confusing frankenstein edit of their time with these people, dizzyingly scrambling footage clearly taken with incomplete disclosure during the consent process, and this lack of transparency and integrity comes across in ways that only serve to objectify and dehumanize the subjects of this docuseries.
Regarding the young woman in the footage named SABRINA:
What type of filmmaker exploits a young woman who is in immense pain, asks to go into her bedroom to film, pressures her to follow a script as she is being filmed under false pretenses, exploiting this young woman's pain and loneliness and suicidal ideation for dramatic effect, filming her struggling as she seeks guidance and emotional healing, splicing the footage to make for most dramatic effect, adding dark green color grading and ominous music to the footage to make her appear like she is crazy, then right when the footage is about to air on tv the producer sends her a damage control text message placating her? Um... what?? How grotesque of a filmmaker to commit such a cruel violation of trust so cooly and callously. Even if the filmmaker believes that a retreat focused on emotional healing would not be enough to help someone who had been dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts, why on earth would they think that boldface lying to this young woman, manipulating her, deceptively editing footage of her, and exploiting her pain on television for thousands of people to see would be a preferable option?? Do you, the filmmakers, have any cognition of the harm your actions have caused? Bits Sola, and all responsible producers of this show, you are very sick individuals.
And regarding the woman in the footage named GRACIELA:
Lying to her about the intentions of the docuseries, asking to film her in her bathtub, asking her to talk about her childhood abuse on camera, editing her story for exploitative dramatic effect, explicitly asking her to take kambo which you knew would make her throw up, then filming a closeup of her while she vomits?? Jesus Christ. What is wrong with you people who filmed this? I guarantee you, no one consented to this. You are seriously sociopaths. You savagely humiliated this woman, you intentionally mistold the narrative of her trauma and abuse, and publicly reopened painful wounds between her and her family. For what purpose? It is legitimately horrifying that you found a way to convince these people that it was safe for them to open up around you as you filmed them for as long as you did.
I cannot see how anyone in their right mind would ever trust these filmmakers after this or want to work with them again knowing how they conducted themselves behind the scenes.
The filmmakers of this docuseries, however, clearly have no respect for their fellow human beings or the harm caused by their own reckless actions. They seem to have lied to and manipulated a great many people in the course of fabricating their newest dramatic narrative, even going so far as to doctor footage in order to create a misleading and confusing frankenstein edit of their time with these people, dizzyingly scrambling footage clearly taken with incomplete disclosure during the consent process, and this lack of transparency and integrity comes across in ways that only serve to objectify and dehumanize the subjects of this docuseries.
Regarding the young woman in the footage named SABRINA:
What type of filmmaker exploits a young woman who is in immense pain, asks to go into her bedroom to film, pressures her to follow a script as she is being filmed under false pretenses, exploiting this young woman's pain and loneliness and suicidal ideation for dramatic effect, filming her struggling as she seeks guidance and emotional healing, splicing the footage to make for most dramatic effect, adding dark green color grading and ominous music to the footage to make her appear like she is crazy, then right when the footage is about to air on tv the producer sends her a damage control text message placating her? Um... what?? How grotesque of a filmmaker to commit such a cruel violation of trust so cooly and callously. Even if the filmmaker believes that a retreat focused on emotional healing would not be enough to help someone who had been dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts, why on earth would they think that boldface lying to this young woman, manipulating her, deceptively editing footage of her, and exploiting her pain on television for thousands of people to see would be a preferable option?? Do you, the filmmakers, have any cognition of the harm your actions have caused? Bits Sola, and all responsible producers of this show, you are very sick individuals.
And regarding the woman in the footage named GRACIELA:
Lying to her about the intentions of the docuseries, asking to film her in her bathtub, asking her to talk about her childhood abuse on camera, editing her story for exploitative dramatic effect, explicitly asking her to take kambo which you knew would make her throw up, then filming a closeup of her while she vomits?? Jesus Christ. What is wrong with you people who filmed this? I guarantee you, no one consented to this. You are seriously sociopaths. You savagely humiliated this woman, you intentionally mistold the narrative of her trauma and abuse, and publicly reopened painful wounds between her and her family. For what purpose? It is legitimately horrifying that you found a way to convince these people that it was safe for them to open up around you as you filmed them for as long as you did.
I cannot see how anyone in their right mind would ever trust these filmmakers after this or want to work with them again knowing how they conducted themselves behind the scenes.
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- enjez
- Jun 6, 2022
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