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Maya had spent twenty years editing documentaries about wars, politics, and climate change. She was good at finding truth in chaos. But when her producer assigned her to cut a new film called Glitter & Ashes —a documentary about the rise and fall of a 1990s teen pop empire—she nearly quit. Clip 47: – grinning, tears streaming down his

Maya sat in the dark editing bay, drowning in clips.

When Glitter & Ashes premiered, one critic called it “the scariest horror film of the year.” Maya smiled. That was the best review she ever got.

The documentary’s subject was Sugar Rush , a manufactured boy-girl band that sold 40 million records before imploding live on a reality TV special in 2001. The director had shot hundreds of hours of footage: old VHS tapes, cell-phone backstage fights, rehab paparazzi shots, and brand-new interviews with the now-faded stars.