Leslie Chilcott

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The story of Charles Manson and his followers continues to intrigue and terrify decades after the heinous events took place – and popular films such as Once Upon a Time in America and The Haunting of Sharon Tate mine the Manson story to frighten new generations for years to come.  Although the tale has been told before, a new six-part docu-series Helter Skelter: An American Myth revisits the legend of the Manson family with a new perspective. Premiering on EPIX on July 26, the series features newly unearthed footage and never-before-accessed interviews from former family members on the scene and journalists who were in the courtroom.  The most comprehensive visual telling of the Manson family, Helter Skelter: An American Myth upends what people think they know about this layered and complex story and sheds an entirely new light on the Crime of the Century.

Director/Executive Producer Lesley Chilcott is an award winning filmmaker, documentarian, and producer whose films often center on social and environmental justice. She was a producer on the 2007 Academy Award-winning documentary, AN INCONVIENENT TRUTH, as well as WAITING FOR SUPERMAN, a film about the declining American education system, for which she won  a Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Documentary. Additional Lesley Chilcott films include WATSON, a documentary about Captain Paul Watson, who put his own life at risk to protect the oceans and marine life; CODEGIRL, which follows an annual competition where high school-aged girls from around the world design an app that solves a problem in their community; and the Barack Obama biographic film A MOTHER'S PROMISE.