WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — When filmmaker Jesse Moss started hearing about the North Dakota oil boom that was creating overnight millionaires and drawing workers from around the country to a seemingly endless number of high-paying jobs, he imagined there was a darker side of the story. Pastor Jay Reinke's decision to allow the workers — including registered sex offenders — to live at the church stoked tensions with a local community that had been an isolated, small farming town just a few years earlier. The result of Moss' time spent bedding down in church hallways alongside the workers and following Reinke through North Dakota's frozen prairie was "The Overnighters," which won the Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Since the documentary, Graves has been arrested again.
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