Hilarie Burton is producing a Sundance-backed documentary series about towns under 10,000 people, exposing judicial corruption and local stories. She's also developing The New Gothic, a scripted drama for AMC that uses what she learned from the documentary to explore crime and power in small towns from a female perspective.
What are you working on right now? Right now I, um, I do a documentary series with Sundance, uh, and so we go to small towns like this. And I'd written a number of books about how much I love small towns, but I also knew that there were levels of corruption in the judicial system in these places. So I wanted to address the toxic stuff so that you could appreciate the good and beautiful parts of living in small towns. So we travel around America and we go to towns that are usually like less than 10,000 1,000 people, and we shine a light on stories that need the public's attention, and then we steer them towards advocacy because people like true crime stories. And then we've got a scripted show that we're doing with AMC that taps into the criminal underworld. Um, it's called The New Gothic. And I think what I've learned doing the documentary series has really been helpful in how we tell stories about what is criminal, How is criminality defined in the United States? And what are the levels of power in small towns? And of course, it's told from a female perspective, so.
