Gloriavale members stuck in timewarp of 50 years ago

The director of a three-part Gloriavale documentary says members of the isolated West Coast community "live like life is frozen in an oppressive communist regime in the 1970s". Justin Pemberton's "Escaping Utopia" follows members of the community who want to escape and have escaped Gloriavale He told Nathan Rarere the real story had not been told and the documentary - which started last night - looks at how the community started, the death of its leader Hopeful Christian, and through to today.