The Family sheds light on one of Australia’s most notorious cults, in a powerful and moving film by Melbourne director Rosie Jones (The Triangle Wars, Antenna 2011). ‘The Family’ was a sinister apocalyptic cult active in Melbourne in the ‘60s and ’70s led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne; beautiful, charismatic and convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. At least 28 children were ‘acquired’ and raised in total isolation, and subjected to yearsof abuse – including beatings, starvation and injections with LSD. The Family pulls back the cover on the murky story of a still-operating sect, revealing the scars the victims still carry to this day and asking difficult questions about how it was allowed to flourish in the first place.