From the Vancouver International Film Festival Press Release, August 31, 2005;

The VIFF is also proud to announce the World Premiere of BANKING ON HEAVEN (US), an unflinching look at a cult of Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS). The film alleges the polygamist communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah (and, by extension, Bountiful, B.C.) are home to a culture that routinely practices child rape, welfare fraud and systematic mind-control. Director Dot Reidelbach and writer/producer Laurie Allen (an escapee from the FLDS) have constructed a documentary out of secret camera footage (outsiders are looked upon as agents of Satan and systematically shunned), interviews with polygamist escapees, “lost boys” (young men and children cast out of the community for such infractions as not rolling their sleeves down), and government officials. An unholy trinity of sex, power and wealth are at the dark heart of this deeply troubling story.