70: Mark Duplass, Chapman & Maclain Way on “Wild Wild Country”

Netflix’s new true crime series “Wild Wild Country” explores the 1980s case of the so-called sex guru Bhagwan Rajneesh whose followers established a city near the small town of Antelope, Oregon and raised fears among locals. The clash of cultures escalated to both sides arming themselves. Rajneesh’s personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela was at the center of scandal accused of mass poisoning, wire-tapping and immigration fraud.

Sibling directors Chapman and Maclain Way previously made the Oregon-based documentary “The Battered Bastards of Baseball.” For “Wild Wild Country," they gained support of executive producers Jay and Mark Duplass, best known as the creators of fiction films (“The Puffy Chair”) and TV series (“Togetherness”). On this episode, Chapman and Maclain are joined by Mark Duplass for a conversation led by Pure Nonfiction’s Raphaela Neihausen at New York’s IFC Center.

Wild Wild Country executive producer Josh Braun was interviewed on Pure Nonfiction #33.

On Twitter: @WildCountryDoc @MarkDuplass @raphaellochka @PureNonfiction

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Parental guidance: This episode contains adult language and subject matter.