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[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for the Netflix series “Murder Among the Mormons.”]

There’s an overwhelming sense of unease right from the start of “Murder Among the Mormons.” Shannon Flynn, sitting in a chair and speaking to interviewers just off-camera, very politely asks that he not answer a particular question. It takes until the end of the three-part documentary series to find out what led to that reaction, but directors Tyler Measom and Jared Hess explained that feeling was in many ways a microcosm of how many people in the Salt Lake City area still live with the consequences of a series of deadly bombings over 35 years later.

“The first scene is usually one of the last things you put in a movie. In today’s world, in some aspects of streaming, the opening part of the documentary is so important. We want to hook the audience, but you also don’t want to give too much away,...

After Tiller from Martha Shane and Lana Wilson sent to N. American theaters by Oscilloscope Oscilloscope has plans to send the documentary which marks Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's directorial debut, out to theaters as well as digital, VOD and home entertainment, reports Variety. The film made its world premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival and is also produced by Wilson and Shane, who script alongside Greg O'Toole. Here's the synopsis, courtesy of the film's Facebook page: Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in May 2009, there are only four American doctors left who provide third-trimester abortions. After Tiller paints a complex, compassionate portrait of these physicians—Dr. LeRoy Carhart...

After Tiller from Martha Shane and Lana Wilson sent to N. American theaters by Oscilloscope Oscilloscope has plans to send the documentary which marks Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's directorial debut, out to theaters as well as digital, VOD and home entertainment, reports Variety. The film made its world premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival and is also produced by Wilson and Shane, who script alongside Greg O'Toole. Here's the synopsis, courtesy of the film's Facebook page: Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in May 2009, there are only four American doctors left who provide third-trimester abortions. After Tiller paints a complex, compassionate portrait of these physicians—Dr. LeRoy Carhart...

Rivkah Beth Medow and Greg O'Toole's Sons of a Gun follows three non-related schizophrenic adults who live as a family (in a single motel room) under the care of Larry, a drunk with a background in hostage negotiation who took the men in when they had nowhere else to go. After a few work-in-progress screenings last year at True/False, the doc will have its official World Premiere in competition at SXSW. Watch the trailer and read Rivkah and Greg's answers to The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone after the jump. <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="alway ...