New Netflix Doc ‘Pray Away’ Tackles The Conversion Therapy Movement, Its Survivors And Lasting Harm

Liberty University, an evangelical institution in the state of Virginia, faces turmoil after former students filed a lawsuit against the US Board of Education for allowing so-called conversion therapy and other discriminatory practices against LGBTQI+ individuals to occur in schools receiving public funding.One of the plaintiffs is Lucas Wilson, who for four years underwent Liberty University’s so-called gender conversion therapy.

Britney Spears’ 13-year-old conservatorship continues, as efforts to remove the singer’s father, Jamie Spears, are ramping up.According to new legal docs, the pop star’s doctors are in favor of booting her father.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is everywhere these days. Following “In The Heights” this summer based on one of his plays and the “Tick, Tick Boom” musical starring Andrew Garfield arriving later this year, Miranda is practically ubiquitous.

Paris Hilton is ready and excited for motherhood — eventually. The TV personality shot down pregnancy rumors in the latest episode of her podcast, but that doesn't mean she's not looking forward to it sometime in the future.ET's Kevin Frazier spoke with Hilton on Tuesday, as she was promoting her upcoming Netflix series, , where she admitted that she's already thought about how her life and career dynamics will change when she one day becomes a mom.«I always love being a boss babe.

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Meghan and Prince Harry’s second Netflix project will focus on a 12-year-old girl’s adventures in an animated series. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions announced Wednesday that the working title "Pearl" will be developed for the streaming service.

Paris Hilton is getting to work on her new Netflix series!

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Thankfully, over recent years, there has been a large outcry against conversion therapy tactics used by churches to “pray the gay away,” so to speak.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNetflix has released the first trailer for “Pray Away,” the Ryan Murphy- and Jason Blum-produced documentary about the so-called “ex-gay” movement.The Kristine Stolakis-directed film, which will premiere Aug. 3 on the streamer, chronicles the rise of Exodus International, a group founded in the 1970s by five members of an evangelical church that claimed gay people could become straight if they “pray away” their homosexuality.

The new Netflix documentary Audible invites viewers to enter a world rarely explored in film: the community of the Deaf and hearing impaired.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEgyptian director and producer Ali El Arabi, who made a splash at virtual Sundance with doc “Captains of Zaatari,” about the soccer dreams of young Syrian refugees, is shooting another soccer-related project, this one centered on fan fever in the leadup to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.“Ashish’s Journey” (working title), El Arabi’s new high-profile doc will chronicle the true tale of a young Indian (pictured in this exclusive first look image) who is

found the organization had violated New Jersey’s consumer fraud law.In issuing that decision, the jury found that JONAH had violated the consumer fraud law by promising a service on which it could not deliver: the changing of clients’ orientation from gay to straight, on the premise that being gay is a treatable mental disorder, a position that was rejected by the American Psychiatric Association more than four decades ago.It also awarded the plaintiffs — three former clients and two of their

Rebel Moon.The Army Of The Dead filmmaker will be co-writing, directing and producing the film for Netflix, the platform through which his previous film was released.Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad will be writing the script alongside Snyder, after Hatten worked with the filmmaker on Army Of The Dead.

Alexander Rodnyansky has spent his career being prolific on the international scene and Cannes 2021 is no different, with the producer in town touting three buzzy upcoming projects, alongside attending the premieres of two of his latest pictures: Ari Folman’s Where is Anne Frank and Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching the Fists.

Naomi Osaka is more just an athlete.That's the message the 23-year-old tennis star is struggling with in the trailer for her upcoming Netflix docuseries, which follows the four-time Grand Slam winner, on and off the court, during a two-year period in which she stepped into the spotlight in a major way.«I think the amount of attention that I get is kind of ridiculous,» Osaka says in the trailer for the upcoming three-part series, which debuts on July 16.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is not only a multifaceted renaissance woman, actor, model, singer; she’s also French royalty, the daughter of louche French pop singer Serge Gainsbourg and model/actress/singer Jane Birkin. She’s also now a filmmaker, having made her first documentary, “Charlotte By Jane,” which melds all of these ideas together.

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Cannes Titles To Stream OnlineA pair of documentaries selected for this year’s Cannes Classics program will screen for free on the festival’s website and on the Cine+ Dailymotion platform as of this evening (July 2) from 7pm local time.