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Shannon Riggs

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George and Paco talk to the filmmaking team behind the HBO docuseries - Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults. Director and Producer Clay Tweel and Producer Shannon Riggs chronicled the three-decade long saga of Marshall Appelwhite and Bonnie Nettles (AKA “Do and Ti”) who recruited scores of people to their alien-worshipping religious cult starting in the mid -'70s. Interviewing former group members, cult experts, and family left behind, the four-part series goes beyond the headlines of this little-understood group that ended in a mass suicide in Southern California in 1997.Clay Tweel is a documentary director/producer/editor whos works include Make Believe, Print the Legend, personal Sup Doc favorite Finders Keepers, Out of Omaha,The Innocent Man, and Gleason. His features have been distributed by Showtime, Netflix, and Amazon Studios. Producer Shannon Riggs is the co-founder of Parkside Films. With Clay Tweel, she produced Gleason and The Innocent Man series. Shannon was an independent producer working across narrative feature films, branded content, and music videos. A participant in the Sundance Female Filmmaker Initiative, Shannon is honored to be a member of Women in Film and actively mentors emerging filmmakers. Follow Clay on:Twitter: @claytweel Follow Shannon on:Twitter: @shannoneriggsFollow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

George and Paco talk to the filmmaking team behind the HBO docuseries - Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults. Director and Producer Clay Tweel and Producer Shannon Riggs chronicled the three-decade long saga of Marshall Appelwhite and Bonnie Nettles (AKA “Do and Ti”) who recruited scores of people to their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">alien-worshipping religious cult</a> starting in the mid -'70s. Interviewing former group members, cult experts, and family left behind, the four-part series goes beyond the headlines of this little-understood group that ended in a mass suicide in Southern California in 1997.Clay Tweel is a documentary director/producer/editor whos works include Make Believe, Print the Legend, personal Sup Doc favorite <a href="https://supdocpodcast.com/podcast/ep-101-finders-keepers-with-comedian-chris-storin/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Finders Keepers</a>, Out of Omaha,The Innocent Man, and Gleason. His features have been distributed by Showtime, Netflix, and Amazon Studios. Producer Shannon Riggs is the co-founder of<a href="https://claytweel.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> Parkside Films</a>. With Clay Tweel, she produced Gleason and The Innocent Man series. Shannon was an independent producer working across narrative feature films, branded content, and music videos. A participant in the Sundance Female Filmmaker Initiative, Shannon is honored to be a member of Women in Film and actively mentors emerging filmmakers. Follow Clay on:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Claytweel" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@claytweel</a> Follow Shannon on:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/shannoneriggs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@shannoneriggs</a>Follow us on:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/supdocpodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@supdocpodcast</a>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/supdocpodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@supdocpodcast</a>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/supdocpodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@supdocpodcast</a><a href="http://eepurl.com/djySML" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">sign up for our mailing list</a>And you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/supdocpodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

169 - HEAVEN'S GATE: THE CULT OF CULTS director Clay Tweel and producer Shannon Riggs

Producer Shannon Riggs chats with us about her new documentary The Smartest Kids in the World. We also discuss her Netflix docu-series The Innocent Man, her award-winning film Gleason, and  the differences between narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Shannon Riggs "Gleason" & "The Smartest Kids in the World"