DocUtah Screenings on November 2 and November 4

We are proud to announce our FIRST IN-PERSON SCREENING AT DOCUTAH

DocUtah is part of Dixie State University, celebrating its 12th season of providing world class documentary films in Southern Utah. SIPE: SEX, LIES AND THE PRIESTHOOD will have two screening dates:

Tuesday, November 2, at 5 p.m. MST at Pineview 8
 and Thursday, November 4, at 1 p.m. MST at Pineview 8.

The venue is Larry H. Miller Megaplex Pine View Theaters at 2376 Red Cliffs Drive in St. George, Utah 84790.

To learn more about the festival, please visit https://docutah.com/.

World Premiere streamed through March 4, 2021

Thank you to all who joined us to watch our Salem Film Fest presentation of SIPE: SEX, LIES, AND THE PRIESTHOOD, which streamed online through March 4, 2021, with a panel discussion. Panelists included Marianne Benkert Sipe, Phil Saviano, Robert Orsi, and Kara French, moderated by Terry McKiernan.

MARCH 2021 PANELISTS:

Marianne Benkert Sipe is a psychiatrist and expert witness specializing in Catholic clergy abuse and the lives of religious sisters; she and her husband Richard Sipe frequently worked together on abuse cases.

Phil Saviano is the activist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse by Fr. David Holley whose story was told in the movie SPOTLIGHT; he is a board member of BishopAccountability.org and represents Mexican folk artists through his import business www.vivaoaxacafolkart.com.

Robert Orsi is Grace Craddock Nagle Chair of Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also Professor of Religious Studies, History, and American Studies. He is the author of many books, including the award-winning Madonna of 115th Street, and is working on Give Us Boys (Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2022), about sexual abuse in Jesuit prep schools. Orsi is a leader of the University of Notre Dame / BishopAccountability.org partnership Gender, Sex, and Power: Towards a History of Clergy Sex Abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church.

Kara French is Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University and author of Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming in June 2021); she is a researcher in the Gender Sex, and Power partnership, where she is working on celibacy in the Catholic abuse crisis.

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