Film Maker and best selling author Caryl Matrisciana is a well-known expert on ancient and modern world religions, contemporary cults, paganism and the occult. Best-selling author, journalist, researcher and commercial artist Caryl has co-produced or contributed research and expertise to more than 55 documentaries in the past 30 years.

For the past 23 years Caryl was the Creative and Marketing Director for Jeremiah Films, a Southern California film company, a leader in documentary film production and video distribution. She was instrumental in the research and production of many of the films covering a myriad subjects and also narrated many of them.

She has been a frequent guest on numerous national and international television and radio programs, and is an informative and articulate public speaker. Her topics have covered enormous diversity and reveal today's cultural trends and social issues with a special emphasis on supernatural themes, contemporary religious views and the so-called "New Age Movement".

Her latest eye-opening video Gods of Entertainment: The Power of Mass Media to Influence and Corrupt explains the agenda behind the power-grab of five mega media conglomerates that control 95% of mass media and entertainment worldwide. It uncovers the principle that whoever controls the media controls the culture and elects the politicians who appoint the judges who shape our political, social, legal landscape and spiritual worldview.

Caryl's 2003 video release Supernatural Powers: The Battle between Good and Evil was praised as the continuum to her 1990 cutting-edge documentary entitled Halloween: Trick or Treat. As well as co-producing and researching the latter, Caryl co-hosted it, the first of a thirteen part series, with Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel. It uncovers Halloween's history and the pagan roots of the New Year festival known as Samhein. In Caryl's Supernatural Powers video she warns of potential dangers behind dabbling with the ouija board, fantasy literature such as Goosebumps, and ghost stories and horror movies and shows how these seemingly innocent past times introduced those interviewed to contact with harmful spirits.

In 2003 Movieguide, a family magazine, radio program and TV show recommended The New Barbarians: Training Children to Kill, "be shown to every person you know." Dr. Ted Baehr, Founder and Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, said, "The New Barbarians makes its case relentlessly, carefully and intelligently. It is timely and profound."

In 2002 Caryl won the NRB TV Producer of the Year Award for her insightful video expose in response to the worldwide Harry Potter phenomenon targeting young children worldwide. Her research for the video, Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged. Making Evil Look Innocent explains the hidden meanings behind esoteric symbology and presents an eye-opening examination into the complete accuracy of the occult, pagan and Wiccan contents within the pages of J.K. Rowling's 7 part Harry Potter Series.

Born and raised in Calcutta, India, Caryl grew up surrounded by eastern mysticism, Islam and Hinduism. Observing Hindu cults first hand, the masters who exploited them, and the followers whose lives were affected, developed an acute awareness in Caryl. Her deep understanding of these influences enabled her, many years later, to counsel westerners victimized by destructive cult groups and manipulative teachings by controlling leaders.

In 1975, Caryl founded Deo Gloria Trust's counter cult organization in London, England, acting as its chief cult researcher. She became recognized as one of Europe's most prominent cult experts supplying information to BBC radio and TV, and the ITV. She furnished facts to published authors and journalists for numerous periodicals worldwide including Newsweek, The London Times, Observer, Telegraph, Guardian, and London's Evening Standard. Caryl met regularly and spoke in the House of Commons with Britain's Members of Parliament and government officials. At the request of European Members of Parliament, she provided vital research and information, which contributed to the passing of the European Resolution on cults in 1984.

Because of her fluency in some Indian languages, her knowledge of India's culture and her expertise in eastern philosophy, in 1981, Caryl was selected as one of five "independent" cult experts. She assisted, along with prominent pastors and professors throughout Europe and America, in a one-month "study tour" of India which was organized by the Lutheran World Federation, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Its purpose was to accumulate in-depth research, which is currently in Denmark, in the archives of Aarhus University's Dialog Center, a scholarly think-tank for inter-religious studies.

Caryl organized international conferences in England and Europe to educate those concerned about the social dangers posed by cults. The outcome of these and other conferences where she spoke, her public speaking at schools and churches, her interaction with media, and involvement with various committees (e.g. The 1978 International Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, sponsored by the Lausanne Commission on World Evangelism) qualified Caryl to establish numerous parent and church-based support groups for cult victims and their families, throughout the UK, Europe and America. Caryl's more than 20 years of personal experiences in counseling hundreds of cult members and their families has enabled many of them to re-establish their lives and relationships after involvement with coercive and manipulative groups.

Caryl is the author of three best selling books: Gods of the New Age, The Evolution Conspiracy and God Makers II. Gods of the New Age examines Hinduism and its western counterpart, the New Age Movement. The Evolution Conspiracy exposes the raging war between Evolution (the foundational premise of Eastern Philosophy and Western paganism) and Creation Science. She argues this in not a battle between science and religion, but rather faith in pagan thinking vs. faith in a Judeo-Christian worldview - with social and moral consequences. God Makers II documents the surprising metamorphosis of recent Mormonism. It's a sequel to the original God Makers movie and book that caused mayhem in the Mormon Empire challenging Mormonism's claim to be a Biblically based Christian Church.

"God's of Entertainment: The Power of Mass Media to Influence and Corrupt" was nominated finalist for 2007 Best Documentary Crown Award".

Caryl Productions latest release, Yoga Uncoiled: From East to West is receiving overwhelming praise - two decades later Caryl updates her classic Award Winning "Gods of the New Age" and shows the aggressive infiltration of eastern mysticism into today's Church Body.