Trailer for Boy Scout Documentary “Leave No Trace” Investigates Likely Sexual Assault Cover-up (Exclusive)

Trailer for Boy Scout Documentary “Leave No Trace” Investigates Likely Sexual Assault Cover-up (Exclusive)

the first trailer leave no traces It offers a glimpse into America’s alleged secular cover-up that resulted in over 82,000 men being accused of sexual assault.

Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director Irene Taylor and ABC News Studios nominee, Imagine Documentaries and Vermilion Films products show the fall of the BSA after allegations that the organization is supported by U.S. presidents, executives and community leaders withheld influence cultural significance since its founding in 1910, knowing the pedophiles in its ranks for generations.

It also explores how declining membership, the Scouts’ financial source, is linked to policies that have failed to protect boys from sexually abusive Scout leaders, leading the Scouts to announce bankruptcy in 2020 and a proposed reorganization plan that includes more sex. . Settlement abuse in history.

The two-and-a-half-minute trailer features documentary footage, including financial records, court documents, and accounts of survivors seeking justice in a high-stakes court case. It also includes interviews and recordings with former leaders of the organization (and one of the most developed experts) that reveal how its executives put the scouts’ opinions and financial interests before the safety of tens of thousands of young people.

At the doctor’s first glance, the young survivor recounts how the violence began not a week after he enlisted in the army, but “the night I got there,” when his parents listened enthusiastically. “I just thought, ‘What’s going on? Is it normal?” He says. “It got a lot worse than that.”

To start a child abuse scandal that rivals the US Catholic Church, Taylor learns of the so-called “perversion files” or records of pedophile scout leaders: “over 1,000 men who used a program to abuse children. organizational leadership of the BSA.

It was classified at the organization’s headquarters, according to the film magazine, they allegedly contained and helped to hide the sexual abuse of young scouts for centuries, while pedophiles passed from one army to another without warning. It all happened when one of the most powerful institutions in the United States decided to prioritize the banning of scouts and gay leaders over information about sexual abusers known to the authorities, the film says.

During the trailer, the survivors also grapple with their own trauma and how their life path was shaped by violence as they explain what the organization’s principles taught them as young explorers: qualities like loyalty, honesty, and kindness. Courage and obedience, and how their parents trusted the institution “the most precious thing they ever had” betrayed that trust.

“I am 40 years old until I tell anyone,” said one survivor. “And when a detective says he confessed to violence against you, I had to read that email a hundred times because I no longer needed to prove to people that I had been abused.”

“It’s not just a financial deal,” says another elderly survivor. “It’s explorers admitting they’ve done something wrong.”

In addition to directing, Taylor also co-produced with Sarah Bernstein and Justin Wilkes for Imagine Documentaries, Emily Singer Chapman and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nigel Jacques. Ron Howard is executive producer with Brian Grazer and Taylor.

After its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, leave no trace It will then be released on Hulu and will premiere on June 16 in theaters in New York and Los Angeles.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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