FARGO – Jesse Moss wanted to make a documentary about the oil boom in western North Dakota, but was looking for an angle. Then he met Pastor Jay Reinke. Moss tapped into Reinke’s “overnighters” ...

out as a documentary about a church trying to give some unemployed men a place to sleep. It appears as if it will be a story about a small town’s astonishing generosity, and the charitable spirit of ...

Nothing threatens the social order like a man who takes the gospel literally. Jay Reinke, a Lutheran minister in Williston, North Dakota, alienated much of his parish and the surrounding community ...

FARGO – Jesse Moss said he was nervous about screening his film, “The Overnighters,” in Williston, N.D., the backdrop for a story that looks at how the oil boom affects a small church. “I was ...

One of the best films of last year, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters is an existentially probing documentary with more layers than a twisty Hollywood thriller, at turns inspiring, challenging, sobering ...

Bay Area filmmaker Jesse Moss talks about his 2014 Sundance-award winning documentary “The Overnighters,” a compelling portrait of Jay Reinke, a Lutheran pastor in Williston, N.D., who opened his ...

Jesse Moss tells NPR's Scott Simon about his documentary, The Overnighters. It follows a pastor in a North Dakota oil boom town whose life is... Fracking Boom Town Wary Of Pastor's 'Overnighters' ...

Streets are never actually paved in gold, but people set off nonetheless to distant places hopeful for riches. In recent years, the magnet has been the Bakken formation, where an oil boom has ...

At merely face value, the documentary "The Overnighters" has a terrific story to tell. In a modest North Dakota town, writer-director Jesse Moss finds a classic Great Depression tale - about the ...