Playing the Devil’s Advocate: A Reflection on Portraying Multiple Truths Through a Documentary Film

Filmmaker and researcher Callahan Mainzer explores two vastly different religious communities and explores how the ethnographic research method and documentary filmmaking are both useful in generating empathy for the "other." The author explores various theoretical constructions of ethnography, namely Robert Orsi, Elizabeth Pritchard, and Gerhard Van Den Heever, as well as documentary theorist Jenn Lindsay's view of documentary as a form of interreligious dialogue, to make sense of his time with