When the documentary filmmaker Alex Mar set out to report on the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, she found herself drawn into a world that defies stereotype. WITCHES OF AMERICA retraces Mar’s five-year trip into the occult, which takes her from Paganism’s American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area, to a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods, to the New Orleans branch of one of the world’s most influential magical societies. As she introduces us to the array of women and men who seek a variety of experiences through rites both ancient and new, a unique community emerges --- one that provokes us to examine the very nature of faith.

Illuminating the shadowed world of witchcraft, WITCHES OF AMERICA speaks powerfully to the mysteries of the spirit.