
Did your perceptions about Sheela evolve during the shoot? We wanted to see how they got there and the justifications they had. What we wanted to explore was how this peace-loving group-ostensibly interested in yoga, meditation and building a utopian ideal-became responsible for the largest biochemical attack in US history and for political assassination attempts against government officials. But we weren't interested in a typical true crime documentary. When we started conceptualising the story, the crimes and criminality were well-known, and people had pled guilty to it. Maclain Way: And we sincerely felt that, too.
