Heaven and Hell

This explosive feature documentary tells the staggering story of how a 'therapeutic' social experiment in New Zealand descended into one of the world's most notorious cults. Former members and children of Centrepoint tell their intimate, raw, and harrowing stories for the first time, providing incredible and shocking insights into this radical sex commune.

The film explores how a group of unconventional soul searchers set up the commune in a small, conservative rural town in the 1970s and reveals the hold that its mysterious middle-aged Guru, Bert Potter, had over them. It also sets out to answer how greed, lust, deceit, addiction, abuse and corruption turned a utopian dream into a collective nightmare that still haunts so many of the people it entangled and wonders why it took official investigators more than a decade to finally shut it down.