'N Sync's Lance Bass Making Doc About Religious Brainwashing

[SecularMotion]

Lance Bass is undoubtedly best known as one of the members of the ‘90s boy band ‘N Sync. But aside from building an acting résumé with voice work in Handy Manny and Hell & Back, he’s been branching out into producing films. And his latest seems guaranteed to cause quite a stir. The Wrap reports Bass will serve as an executive producer on the in-the-works documentary Kidnapped for Christ, which will focus on how an Evangelical Church reform school attempts to modify the behavior of troubled kids and gay youth.

The film marks the directorial debut of Kate Logan, who previously produced the documentary Haiti: The Sleeping Giant. A former Evangelical missionary herself, Logan is familiar with the tenets of the faith and was given incredible access to an American-run "therapeutic Christian boarding school" in the Dominican Republic called Escuela Caribe. But when when her cameras go behind the scenes there, she is shocked to discover the methods invoked to produce change in these teens. Fellow producer Mike C. Manning, who starred in Real World: D.C., explains, “Parents think they’re doing the right thing by sending their children to these places. We want to show them that these schools are not what they seem.”

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/-N-Sync-Lance-Bass-Making-Doc-About-Religious-Brainwashing-38927.html

[edhopper]

1. The more exposure

of the dangers and harm from the evangelicals the better.
The MSM gives them too much of a pass.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. I hope Bass has a lot of success with these projects.

These stories are important and people need to hear them. He's a good role model for gay people here in Mississippi, and all of us should be proud of him.

[rug]

3. I wonder what soundtrack he'll use.

[cbayer]

4. Never heard of him, but I have really enjoyed other documentaries on this topic.

Best of luck to him and I look forward to seeing his doc.