A new Hulu docuseries on the crimes of Larry Ray premieres on February 9. zmarieguy spoke with Zachary Heinzerling, the director of 'Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence'
“Daniel Levin, who was one of the survivors of Larry Ray and one of the main sources for the article, approached me about making a documentary,” Heinzerling said in an interview with Vulture. “He said, ‘I wanna make something that the survivors will be able to watch and see themselves in.’” Levin first approached Heinzerling at the end of 2019, and the two shared the goal of telling the story from the point of view of the survivors.
One of Ray’s tactics was to manipulate the truth and alter the memories of the students, isolating them from their families and making them believe they owed him astronomical sums of money or were being poisoned in an elaborate conspiracy too complicated to dive into here. Throughout the course of filming, Heinzerling saw the process of one survivor deciphering “which memories were Larry’s and which were her own and really build her identity back.
Combing through audiotapes and footage taken inside the cult alongside firsthand accounts, one of Heinzerling’s objectives was to show just how anyone could fall for an authoritarian leader who claimed to have a monopoly on the truth. “I went to a small liberal-arts college,” the director began. “I had a similar group of artistic-minded friends.
Heinzerling wants the doc to “show the real process enacted by Larry over the course of many years” and “allow people to see themselves in that experience.” “In this case, it’s a psychological prison,” he explained. “When you see videos of these students admitting to these bizarre crimes, it’s hard to know what to make of it.
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