Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s portrait of an Evangelical Christian summer camp earned them an Oscar nomination, and the “Jesus Camp” directors’ latest project, “One of Us,” explores another religious community, this one forged and united by Hasidic Judaism. Variety reports that the documentary has landed at Netflix and will premiere on the streaming service this fall.
Shot in vérité style, “One of Us” follows three individuals and “their decision to leave the insular ultra-Orthodox community,” Variety summarizes. “Their move into the secular world comes at a cost, straining their relationships with their family members and — in one case — threatening their personal safety.”
Netflix is planning an awards push.
“Ten years after making ‘Jesus Camp’ we return to another fascinating world anchored in belief and belonging,” Ewing and Grady said in a joint statement. “Our main subjects may be leaving the intense strictures of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, but they’re also grappling with a universal human dilemma: that the cost of freedom can also mean losing the only community they’ve ever known.”
The collaborators’ other credits include 2016’s “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You,” a doc about the legendary TV producer behind hits such as “All in the Family,” “One Day at a Time,” and “Maude,” and 2012’s Sundance winner “Detropia,” a portrait of Detroit and its economic woes.
