BAFTA long-listed film Sister Wives explores queerness in a polygamous cult

Louisa Connolly-Burnham, the writer, director and star of the recently BAFTA long-listed short film Sister Wives, is acutely aware that hers is far from the first bit of media centred on Mormon sects in recent years.

“There is something in the zeitgeist right now where everybody is just obsessed with Mormons,” she smiles, talking to PinkNews via Zoom from her South London apartment.

The big streamers know it, too. From Disney+ series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (2024) to Netflix and BBC documentaries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022) and The Mormons are Coming (2023), it’s clear that we’re fascinated by how the other half – or rather, how 0.2 per cent of the world’s population – lives.

Sister Wives is specifically rooted in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus

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