DELIVER US FROM EVIL

DOCUMENTARY, US, 2006, 101 minutes

Director/Producer: Amy Berg

This is the story of Father Oliver O'Grady, an ingratiating man but also a notorious pedophile. O'Grady used his charm and authority as a priest to exploit children in Northern California over the course of twenty years. Despite early warning signs and complaints, the Church continued to move him from parish to parish. Following O'Grady's incarceration and deportation to Ireland, filmmaker Amy Berg, remarkably, persuaded him to participate in the making of her film, and several of O'Grady's victims also finally speak out, shedding light on the sad legacy of sexual abuse. As we go to press, DELIVER US FROM EVIL is causing an earthquake within the Los Angeles Archdiocese under the jurisdiction of Cardinal Roger Mahony with its searing indictment concerning church practices.

· 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival: Target Documentary Award

Amy Berg has spent the past five years producing documentary segments for CNN Investigations and the CBS News program 30 Minutes of Special Assignment, for which she received two Emmy's. DELIVER US FROM EVIL is her first long-form documentary. She is currently working on a narrative feature: THIS IS NOT AMERICA.