The Producers
Joseph Martin started his career working in the BBC events department before studying for a Film Production degree at The University for the Creative Arts, where he made the documentary Britains Young Soldiers. After graduating in 2010, Joseph joined the Academy Award nominated and Sundance winning company Roast Beef Productions as a freelance director. In 2011, at the age of 23, Joseph became the youngest ever new talent Director For Channel 4 in the united Kingdom with his film Win a Baby. He followed these projects up with Scientologists at War which became the highest rated new talent documentary to have ever screened on Channel 4.
Mike Lerner has been producing arts, travel and popular culture documentaries for twenty years. He has produced films in many countries form the Middle East to South America and from Central Asia to the Far East. He has made films for BBC, Channel Four, Five, ITV, Discovery and Travel Channel; the subjects include Picasso, Turkmenbashi, The Sistine Chapel, Hawkwind and Afghanistan.
Meet Scientology's highest-level defector, Marty Rathbun. As the former Inspector General of Ethics in the organisation, Rathbun worked closely with its leader, David Miscavige, and celebrity follower Tom Cruise. Now he lives in small-town America: a man under siege. With incredible access, this doc captures the shocking measures the church will take to pressurise and discredit defectors. A rare insider-view of the highly secretive organisation.
Official Selection, Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2013