Leslie Chilcott

Listen to "Leslie Chilcott From Helter Skelter An American Myth On EPIX" on Spreaker. 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.