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will tell the story of Carlson, Aka Mother God, and Love Has Won with exclusive access to key subjects and previously unpublished archival material, according to HBO.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will tell the story of Carlson, Aka Mother God, and Love Has Won with exclusive access to key subjects and previously unpublished archival material, according to HBO.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
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
HBO's new documentary Baby God tells the disturbing story of Dr. Quincy Fortier, a Las Vegas-based fertility doctor with a dark secret: instead of performing artificial insemination on his patients using their husbands' sperm, he used his own without telling his patients, resulting in a web of medical deceit, betrayals, and over two dozen children who didn't even know the truth of their parentage. Even more disturbing? Fortier never had to face the consequences of his actions.
On two separate occasions, as reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal, Fortier settled out of court with women who accused him of deceiving them by using his own sperm in their artificial insemination procedures, resulting in children that they didn't know were fathered by Fortier. One of those cases was settled in 2001, the other in 2006. In both of them, court-ordered DNA tests proved that Fortier was the biological father of both women's children,...
On two separate occasions, as reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal, Fortier settled out of court with women who accused him of deceiving them by using his own sperm in their artificial insemination procedures, resulting in children that they didn't know were fathered by Fortier. One of those cases was settled in 2001, the other in 2006. In both of them, court-ordered DNA tests proved that Fortier was the biological father of both women's children,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
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
"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
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