How does a McDonald’s manager with three young children end up becoming a cult leader who believes she has birthed the entire human race, been reincarnated as Jesus, Joan of Arc, and Marilyn Monroe and is spiritually connected to late actor Robin Williams?
Hannah Olson’s three-part HBO docuseries “Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God” attempts to answer that question.
The series, which is currently streaming on Max, begins with Colorado police discovering a mummified body lying on an enshrined queen-sized bed, wrapped in a sleeping bag decorated with Christmas lights. As the police officer’s bodycam gets closer to the bed, his flashlight reveals that the corpse’s face is not only severely gaunt, but also distinctly blue with glitter around the eye sockets. Eventually, the body is identified as Amy Carlson, former leader of the cult Love Has Won. Autopsy reports would later conclude that Carlson died of alcohol abuse,...
Hannah Olson’s three-part HBO docuseries “Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God” attempts to answer that question.
The series, which is currently streaming on Max, begins with Colorado police discovering a mummified body lying on an enshrined queen-sized bed, wrapped in a sleeping bag decorated with Christmas lights. As the police officer’s bodycam gets closer to the bed, his flashlight reveals that the corpse’s face is not only severely gaunt, but also distinctly blue with glitter around the eye sockets. Eventually, the body is identified as Amy Carlson, former leader of the cult Love Has Won. Autopsy reports would later conclude that Carlson died of alcohol abuse,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
When Amy Carlson’s mummified body was found in April 2021, it looked like a blue skeleton. It was also in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights. Her followers in the Love Has Won cult were apparently still waiting for the Galactics, a group of dead luminaries led by Robin Williams, to come pick her up in their spaceship. Somehow, this never happened. Instead, the cops came.
On planet Earth this could all easily pass for insanity. But the Love Has Won crew thought Earth was for suckers, as we learn in the riveting,...
On planet Earth this could all easily pass for insanity. But the Love Has Won crew thought Earth was for suckers, as we learn in the riveting,...
- 12/2/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Max’s Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God features a cast of various interviewees that chronicle the life and death of cult leader Amy Carlson.
Directed by Hannah Olson, Love Has Won revolves around the mysterious cult led by Carlson who tells the story of how she became a self-proclaimed spiritual savior.
The three-part docuseries tackles the consequences of faith driven by conspiracy and how it has an everlasting effect on its followers.
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Directed by Hannah Olson, Love Has Won revolves around the mysterious cult led by Carlson who tells the story of how she became a self-proclaimed spiritual savior.
The three-part docuseries tackles the consequences of faith driven by conspiracy and how it has an everlasting effect on its followers.
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- 11/28/2023
- by Aeron Mer Eclarinal
- The Direct
The eerie, extremely-online world of the the cult Love Has Won, and its founder Amy “Mother God” Carlson, are getting the full HBO docuseries treatment.
The new trailer for Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God starts at the only place to start with the Carlson/Love Has Won story: bodycam footage of police officers entering a house and learning, “Mother is in rest. She has rested.” There’s not much footage after that, just an officer walking towards a room filled with glowing, multicolored lights, which can only...
The new trailer for Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God starts at the only place to start with the Carlson/Love Has Won story: bodycam footage of police officers entering a house and learning, “Mother is in rest. She has rested.” There’s not much footage after that, just an officer walking towards a room filled with glowing, multicolored lights, which can only...
- 11/8/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The HBO Original three-part documentary series Love Has Won: The Cult Of Mother God, directed by Hannah Olson (HBO’s “Baby God” and “The Last Cruise”), debuts Monday, November 13 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO and will be available to stream on Max, followed by episodes two and three airing subsequent Mondays at the same time.
Synopsis: Love Has Won: The Cult Of Mother God chronicles the life and death of Amy Carlson, also known as “Mother God,” a self-proclaimed spiritual savior who promised an escape from the “3D” world via her online manifestos and live-streaming sessions. As her most fervent acolytes came to live with Amy, they cared for “Mother God,” whose health gradually declined. Amy’s followers joined her in believing that her physical demise was the result of her taking on the pain of the world, and that her deterioration would ultimately lead to her...
Synopsis: Love Has Won: The Cult Of Mother God chronicles the life and death of Amy Carlson, also known as “Mother God,” a self-proclaimed spiritual savior who promised an escape from the “3D” world via her online manifestos and live-streaming sessions. As her most fervent acolytes came to live with Amy, they cared for “Mother God,” whose health gradually declined. Amy’s followers joined her in believing that her physical demise was the result of her taking on the pain of the world, and that her deterioration would ultimately lead to her...
- 11/8/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Hallmark Channel announced the premiere dates of six all-new movies releasing as part of the network’s “Fall Harvest” programming event, running from Sept. 11 through Oct. 16. The program lineup includes fall romances and holiday specials, alongside a Mystery Movies round of films.
The lineup of new films start on Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. with “Roadhouse Romance,” starring Lauren Alaina and Tyler Hynes. The movie follows country music fan Callie, who is determined to continue her late grandfather’s legacy, and TV director Luke, who encourages her to look forward instead of back. The following week features “Raise A Glass To Love,” on Sept. 18 at 6 p.m., starring Laura Osnes and Juan Pablo Di Pace as Jenna and Argentinian winemaker Marcelo, who fall in love at Jenna’s family vineyard. “Taking The Reins,” which follows a writer who goes back home for an article about horses and discovers what ended her...
The lineup of new films start on Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. with “Roadhouse Romance,” starring Lauren Alaina and Tyler Hynes. The movie follows country music fan Callie, who is determined to continue her late grandfather’s legacy, and TV director Luke, who encourages her to look forward instead of back. The following week features “Raise A Glass To Love,” on Sept. 18 at 6 p.m., starring Laura Osnes and Juan Pablo Di Pace as Jenna and Argentinian winemaker Marcelo, who fall in love at Jenna’s family vineyard. “Taking The Reins,” which follows a writer who goes back home for an article about horses and discovers what ended her...
- 8/10/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO is in production on Love Has Won, a new docuseries about the obscure religious group branded a cult by many, and its leader Amy Carlson, with Baby God director Hannah Olson set to direct.
The series will tell the story of Carlson, Aka Mother God, and Love Has Won with exclusive access to key subjects and previously unpublished archival material, according to HBO.
The Love Has Won movement has been described as a combination of New Age spirituality, conspiracy theories, and elements from mainstream Abrahamic religions. The group proclaimed that Carlson was a divine, 19-billion-year-old being who had birthed all creation. Carlson claimed she had been reincarnated 534 times, including as Jesus, Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra, and would lead 144,000 people into a mystical “5th dimension”.
The mummified remains of the 45-year-old Carlson were found April 28 wrapped in Christmas lights in a home in Crestone, Colorado, the...
The series will tell the story of Carlson, Aka Mother God, and Love Has Won with exclusive access to key subjects and previously unpublished archival material, according to HBO.
The Love Has Won movement has been described as a combination of New Age spirituality, conspiracy theories, and elements from mainstream Abrahamic religions. The group proclaimed that Carlson was a divine, 19-billion-year-old being who had birthed all creation. Carlson claimed she had been reincarnated 534 times, including as Jesus, Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra, and would lead 144,000 people into a mystical “5th dimension”.
The mummified remains of the 45-year-old Carlson were found April 28 wrapped in Christmas lights in a home in Crestone, Colorado, the...
- 6/11/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
One of several timely films offering a personal and global perspective on Covid-19, Hannah Olson’s medium-length documentary The Last Cruise is a stirring personal account of a tiny but consequential microcosm of Covid: the Diamond Princess cruise, which quickly saw its infections grow from one to eventually 691, 33 days after it set sail. A canary in the coal mine, the Diamond Princess should have offered global health organizations a blueprint for what not to do, and the film quietly makes its outrage known throughout the horrific ordeal.
Capturing the early days of Covid when so much was unknown––prior to jurisdictions throughout the world making mandatory modifications––the film is largely told through the cell phone footage of American passengers and international crew. Starting off like any other vacation home video, we learn the ship sets sail on the day when there had only been four confirmed cases in the world,...
Capturing the early days of Covid when so much was unknown––prior to jurisdictions throughout the world making mandatory modifications––the film is largely told through the cell phone footage of American passengers and international crew. Starting off like any other vacation home video, we learn the ship sets sail on the day when there had only been four confirmed cases in the world,...
- 3/20/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
"If we're still reporting this many cases, how are we ever gunna get off the ship?" HBO has revealed the official trailer for the documentary short The Last Cruise, which will be available to watch on HBO later this month. The Last Cruise is a 40 minute doc that's premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this week in the Documentary Shorts Competition section. A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, the film chronicles the first & largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner. Through never-before-seen footage from passengers and crew, we watch class divisions erupt as humanity misses its chance to contain Covid-19. It looks like a harrowing film about the coronavirus and how authorities tried to contain it. Probably best as a 40-min short because I don't think anyone can watch a full 90 mins of this. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Hannah Olson's doc The Last Cruise,...
- 3/16/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Hollywood is no stranger to competing projects that are each racing to be first or to be the definitive story, be it two Fyre Fest documentaries, two biopics about Steve Jobs or two different “Jungle Books.” But the number of projects surrounding GameStop and the investors on Reddit’s WallStreetBets is unheard of.
TheWrap counts a whopping eight different projects all announced within the last few weeks that aim to focus on how GameStop, labeled a “meme stock” by independent online traders, surged by 1500% in market share before the price came crashing down again. Those come in the form of narrative feature films as well as documentary features and series that all want to cash in on the story of the traders who really did manage to cash in.
It’s no wonder there’s so much interest; the story is a good one. Individual, amateur investors found an opportunity...
TheWrap counts a whopping eight different projects all announced within the last few weeks that aim to focus on how GameStop, labeled a “meme stock” by independent online traders, surged by 1500% in market share before the price came crashing down again. Those come in the form of narrative feature films as well as documentary features and series that all want to cash in on the story of the traders who really did manage to cash in.
It’s no wonder there’s so much interest; the story is a good one. Individual, amateur investors found an opportunity...
- 2/15/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Propagate, the company behind Hulu’s Hillary, and the Wall Street Journal are the latest companies to explore the recent GameStop financial saga.
Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ company is working with The Wall Street Journal Studios on feature doc This Is Not Financial Advice, directed by Hannah Olson, director of HBO’s Baby God.
It is the latest project in the works on the saga with feature docs from Xtr and directors Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci and Console Wars director Jonah Tulsi and Submarine as well as feature films from Netflix, Mark Boal and Noah Centineo, MGM and Ben Mezrich, RatPac and HBO, Jason Blum, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Len Amato.
The project will explore the recent stock market chaos that started with GameStop and has revealed a major power shift on Wall Street. It will examine the origins and inner workings of the digital and social...
Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ company is working with The Wall Street Journal Studios on feature doc This Is Not Financial Advice, directed by Hannah Olson, director of HBO’s Baby God.
It is the latest project in the works on the saga with feature docs from Xtr and directors Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci and Console Wars director Jonah Tulsi and Submarine as well as feature films from Netflix, Mark Boal and Noah Centineo, MGM and Ben Mezrich, RatPac and HBO, Jason Blum, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Len Amato.
The project will explore the recent stock market chaos that started with GameStop and has revealed a major power shift on Wall Street. It will examine the origins and inner workings of the digital and social...
- 2/8/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The kind of story at the heart of Baby God is sadly familiar from news reports. As text at the end of the documentary points out, “More than two dozen U.S. doctors have been accused of secretly inseminating patients with their own sperm.” Director Hannah Olson’s first feature follows the children of Dr. Quincy Fortier, an Ob/Gyn who used his sperm to impregnate dozens of women in Nevada from the 1940s through the ’80s. Fortier, who died in 2006 at the age of 93, was sued late in life by one of the children of ...
- 11/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The kind of story at the heart of Baby God is sadly familiar from news reports. As text at the end of the documentary points out, “More than two dozen U.S. doctors have been accused of secretly inseminating patients with their own sperm.” Director Hannah Olson’s first feature follows the children of Dr. Quincy Fortier, an Ob/Gyn who used his sperm to impregnate dozens of women in Nevada from the 1940s through the ’80s. Fortier, who died in 2006 at the age of 93, was sued late in life by one of the children of ...
- 11/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Do you want to say that your father was a monster? And what does that say about you...?" HBO has unveiled an official trailer for a harrowing investigative documentary titled Baby God, made by filmmaker Hannah Olson. You may have heard of this story thanks to all the shocking headlines about the discovery. For more than 30 years, Dr. Quincy Fortier covertly used his own sperm — without his patients' knowledge or consent — to inseminate his fertility patients and impregnate them with his own DNA. Now his secret is out and his children seek the truth about his motives and try to make sense of their own identities. Not only does the film examine this man and why he might've done this, but it also spends time with all of the people who have his DNA in them. It's fascinating to see them grapple with the morals of his decision and how...
- 11/16/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
HBO’s Baby God, debuting Wednesday, December 2 (9:00-10:20 p.m. Et/Pt), from first-time director Hannah Olson and executive produced by Academy Award® nominees Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, is a shocking examination of the work of a Las Vegas fertility specialist and the many women he guided to pregnancy through use of his own sperm, often without their knowledge or consent. The documentary follows his newly-discovered offspring as they grapple with the scope of his misdeeds and the impact that his genes may have on their own identities. Baby God will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max. When retired detective Wendi Babst decides to explore her ancestry through home DNA testing, she makes a stunning discovery. The quest to find the truth about her biological father takes her down a rabbit-hole of furtive medical procedures and unsuspecting women… leading to one man: Dr.
- 11/14/2020
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival and staple of the New York film community, announced the lineup for its 11th edition, running online November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The program includes new films about John Belushi, Pope Francis, Bill T. Jones, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more. The 2020 festival lineup includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by Bipoc directors (34% of the feature program).
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Issa Rae has found her latest project at HBO.
The “Insecure” creator and star is set to executive produce a two-part documentary called “Seen & Heard” on the history of Black television from the perspective of those who wrote, produced, created and starred in series of the past and present.
“Who Killed Malcolm X?’ helmer Phil Bertelsen is on board to direct the doc which will feature interviews with actors, showrunners, writers, and celebrities sharing their experiences of watching African Americans represented on TV and succeeding in their own creative endeavors. The doc will also incorporate archival material and verité-driven segments.
“Black people have such a rich, but often unacknowledged history in Hollywood,” said Rae. “We have defined American culture and influenced generations time and time again across the globe. I’m honored to pair with Ark Media to center and celebrate the achievements of those who paved a way for...
The “Insecure” creator and star is set to executive produce a two-part documentary called “Seen & Heard” on the history of Black television from the perspective of those who wrote, produced, created and starred in series of the past and present.
“Who Killed Malcolm X?’ helmer Phil Bertelsen is on board to direct the doc which will feature interviews with actors, showrunners, writers, and celebrities sharing their experiences of watching African Americans represented on TV and succeeding in their own creative endeavors. The doc will also incorporate archival material and verité-driven segments.
“Black people have such a rich, but often unacknowledged history in Hollywood,” said Rae. “We have defined American culture and influenced generations time and time again across the globe. I’m honored to pair with Ark Media to center and celebrate the achievements of those who paved a way for...
- 8/5/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Doc charts turf war between ultra-orthodox Jewish community and secular neighbours.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up Us rights to Jesse Sweet’s documentary City Of Joel, on which Halloween director David Gordon Green and Visit Films chief Ryan Kampe served as executive producers.
City Of Joel centres on an ultra-orthodox Hasidic sect occupying the titular 1.1-square mile plot of land 50 miles north of New York City who are locked in a turf war with their secular neighbours.
As the 22,000-strong population outgrows the their religious haven, the residents devise a plan to double the size of the footprint, sparking...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up Us rights to Jesse Sweet’s documentary City Of Joel, on which Halloween director David Gordon Green and Visit Films chief Ryan Kampe served as executive producers.
City Of Joel centres on an ultra-orthodox Hasidic sect occupying the titular 1.1-square mile plot of land 50 miles north of New York City who are locked in a turf war with their secular neighbours.
As the 22,000-strong population outgrows the their religious haven, the residents devise a plan to double the size of the footprint, sparking...
- 10/29/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Talks to continue on Behold My Heart, Madeline’s Madeline.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films heads to the Croisette with a sales slate that encompasses SXSW selection 1985, Tribeca entries Maine and Slut In A Good Way, and documentary City Of Joel, among others.
Kampe and his team will continue talks on Behold My Heart starring Marisa Tomei, and Sundance and Berlinale selection Madeline’s Madeline.
1985 (pictured) stars Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Michael Chiklis, and Jamie Chung and follows a closeted young man returning to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis.
Burdened...
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films heads to the Croisette with a sales slate that encompasses SXSW selection 1985, Tribeca entries Maine and Slut In A Good Way, and documentary City Of Joel, among others.
Kampe and his team will continue talks on Behold My Heart starring Marisa Tomei, and Sundance and Berlinale selection Madeline’s Madeline.
1985 (pictured) stars Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Michael Chiklis, and Jamie Chung and follows a closeted young man returning to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis.
Burdened...
- 5/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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