Former NSYNC Member Lance Bass Set to Release 'Kidnapped for Christ,' a Documentary Exposing Christian Reform School (VIDEO)

Lance Bass is set to be the executive producer of a documentary entitled, "Kidnapped for Christ," in hopes to expose Christian reform schools for their methods of making "troubled" kids conform.

Showtime will premiere the documentary "Kidnapped for Christ," on July 10 at 7:30pm. According to TheWarp.com the documentary won the Audience Award for "Best Documentary Feature" at Slamdance this year.

The documentary follows Evangelical filmmaker Kate Logan as she visits a school, Escuela Caribe, in the Dominican Republic. The school is ran by means of a controversial Christian behavior modification program for "troubled" U.S. teenagers. Logan reported that she initially hoped to document the school for its positive effects on "troubled" youth, but is now exposing the school for its "inappropriate and abusive treatment" of teens, as stated in the film's Kickstarter campaign.

Logan was given full access to film inside this school over the course of a summer because of her Evangelical background. Throughout her time there, she follows the stories of several American teenagers who were allegedly taken from their homes and sent away to the Dominican Republic to be "fixed" for problems ranging from sexual orientation, to having panic attacks, to drug abuse.

Several quotes can be found on the film's Kickstarter page from former students claiming they were severely mistreated.

"I believe every day [at Escuela Caribe] was a violation of my person ... I am diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a direct result of my experience in the program," read a quote from Lisa Brown.

In 2011, all the assets of Escuela Caribe's founding organization, New Horizons Youth Ministries, was donated to an Indiana nonprofit called Lifeline Youth and Family Services. Lifeline changed the name of the New Horizons program to Crosswinds. Crosswinds has since addressed the media criticism on their website.

"It has never been and never will be the practice of Crosswinds to participate in gay conversion therapy. We have never accepted nor will ever accept a student with a purpose of keeping them from being gay or changing them from being gay," the organization wrote.

"Crosswinds continues to be saddened by the endless chain of stories of abuse from past students of New Horizons, and understands that this kind of pain doesn't simply go away," the organization noted. "However, we ask that people seek the truth about Crosswinds through direct contact, rather than defamatory petitions"

According to Bass and Logan, the abuse continues, and they have made it their mission to expose this Christian program. Bass is perhaps fueled to do this because he himself is an outspoken gay man who grew up in a Christian home. Although the majority of Christians maintain that homosexuality is a sin, the former NSYNC member's mother has spoken at churches to enforce the inclusion of homosexual people in the church.

Logan on the other hand seemingly became passionate about exposing this school after talking with the kids further troubled by their experience. Logan learned of the school in the first place because she worked as a missionary in the area.

View the Kidnapped for Christ trailer and Lance Bass Kickstarter promotional video below: