Episode 63: ‘The Lure’ with ‘Abducted in Plain Sight’ Director Skye Borgman

Episode 63

17th January 2019

We are so lucky to have on the program this week, cinematographer and director Skye Borgman. Her most recent documentary, Abducted in Plain Sight, follows the story of a young girl in a tight-knit LDS community, who is abducted twice by her neighbor and parent’s best friend. It’s an intense and serious film, which makes Skye’s chosen genre movie all the more interesting. She has decided to discuss 2015’s Polish, horror, mermaid musical, The Lure. She and April pinpoint how this film is able to deftly deliver harsh truths about female sexualization within the framework of a mythic fairytale. The two also marvel at the director Agnieszka Smoczynska, and what she was able to do in terms of pushing the limits of the mermaid’s fin designs. Skye also touches upon working with the Broberg family on her doc, and how she was able to get them to discuss incredibly difficult subjects like pedophilia and child abuse.

Episode notes

The Lure

We are so lucky to have on the program this week, cinematographer and director Skye Borgman. Her most recent documentary, Abducted in Plain Sight, follows the story of a young girl in a tight-knit LDS community, who is abducted twice by her neighbor and parent’s best friend. It’s an intense and serious film, which makes Skye’s chosen genre movie all the more interesting. She has decided to discuss 2015’s Polish, horror, mermaid musical, The Lure. She and April pinpoint how this film is able to deftly deliver harsh truths about female sexualization within the framework of a mythic fairytale. The two also marvel at the director Agnieszka Smoczynska, and what she was able to do in terms of pushing the limits of the mermaid’s fin designs. Skye also touches upon working with the Broberg family on her doc, and how she was able to get them to discuss incredibly difficult subjects like pedophilia and child abuse.

You can see Abducted in Plain Sight on Netflix.

If you haven’t seen it yet, go watch The Lure.

With April Wolfe and Skye Borgman.

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Produced by Casey O’Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

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