Why ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Filmmakers Used Satire to Send Up a Scandalous Megachurch (Video)

Sundance 2022: The faux documentary stars Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall

Twin sisters Adamma Ebo and Adanne Ebo made their feature film debut at Sundance with “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” a faux documentary inspired by their Southern Baptist upbringing in Atlanta.

“We, very quickly, I think, from a young age, got disillusioned with it and started questioning and thinking critically about it,” writer-director Adamma told Steve Pond at TheWrap’s virtual Sundance studio. “So we decided there was so much reckoning, I think, within ourselves about it, that this was the area I think to explore.”

The filmmakers were joined in the interview by cast members Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall.

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