Shadowland is a 2024 Finnish documentary film about an esoteric community in the French Pyrenees, directed by Otso Tiainen.
[1] The documentary was originally planned to be about filmmaker and occultist Richard Stanley and other members of an esoteric community, called "The Zone," in the French Occitania.
During filming, an allegation of past domestic abuse was made against Stanley.
[2] Director Tiainen stated in an official statement: "We filmmakers started this journey planning to make an elevated documentary with genre film aspirations.
The film was supposed to show how an imagined world can mend a broken soul.