"It's about mandatory education. Educate all these kids about the rest of the world. They should be going to public schools and educated because educated people make better choices," Allen said in an interview in Vancouver.

She says she is donating 20 per cent of the profits of her film to a charity called Child Brides that helps women who want out.

British Columbia Attorney General Wally Oppal said, "This has sort of been a festering file for a long time. Each attorney general that has dealt with it reached a dead end. I've made it my business to pursue this thing."

Former Attorney General Geoff Plant announced last year the start of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into allegations of child abuse, forcible marriage and sexual exploitation in Bountiful. No charges have been laid.

Oppal said the RCMP is still trying to interview residents, but that it has been hard to get people to come forward.

"How can they?" asked Palmer. "The women we're most concerned about, who were 15 and 16 years old when they were assigned to the men in positions of authority inside the community, aren't coming from a position of strength to make their own personal complaints any more than any other child who has been raped in their life."

"When you're controlled and conditioned that way from birth you do not have any other frame of reference or any other way of making choices."

Allen said she hopes Banking on Heaven gets people talking about the problem.