married to the moonies

Firecracker Films / Channel 4

producer: Barbie McLaurin

composer: Jon Nicholls

Documentary exploring the little-known world of the Unification Church.

The film follows three young British followers as they prepare to travel to Korea to be blessed alongside thousands of others by their Messiah, the Reverend Moon, in one of the movement's controversial mass weddings.

Having been brought up to obey strict rules of celibacy some are matched by their parents to partners they sometimes have never met.  Cameras follow them as they undertake a condensed courtship; meeting and making plans for the future with a person they hardly know.