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LDS Film Festival 2012: Day 4
Notes from Day 4 of the 2012 LDS Film Festival: Unicorn City Written / Directed by: Adrian & Brian Lefler Described as “Monty Python & The Holy Grail” meets “Napoleon Dynamite”, Unicorn City is a film made by gamer geeks for gamer geeks. However, even if the terms LARP, D&D, WOW, or MMORPG don’t...
LDS Film Festival 2012: Day 3
The Last Eagle Scout Written/Directed by: Kels Goodman The Last Eagle Scout is the pet project for director Kels Goodman, who wrote (with Danna Tanner), produced, edited, and financed (with his dad) this film over the last eight years. Set in an “alternate reality” US in 2012, Cliff Elliot...
LDS Film Festival 2012: Overview & Day 1
Notes from Day 1 of the 2012 LDS Film Festival: Looking through the final schedule, this year’s LDS Film Festival has the usual variety of feature films, short films, and documentaries, but new this year are some “musical interludes” before screenings featuring local musical artists. Undoubtedly...
LDS Film Festival 2012 Schedule Announced
The 2012 LDS Film Festival will be taking place January 25th through the 28th at the SCERA theater in Orem, Utah. The primary schedule has been announced at the official site, although there will be further updates of showings and presentations closer to the festival opening. Some highlights of...
Review: The Book of Life (B+)
Mormon Life says: The plot of this new Italian film is basically a dramatization of the Plan of Salvation.
Life is Beautiful meets Saturday’s Warrior in this Italian movie from writer/director/actor Marco Lui. Like fellow Italian Roberto Benigni, Marco Lui is adept at physical comedy (and uses jokes and...
Potterpalooza and Pioneer Trek: The Power of Stories for Building Communities
Mormon Life says: This seemed like an interesting correlation: after attending a Harry Potter event, the writer found it interesting how both groups - Harry Potter fans and pioneer trek participants - go to such extents to remember a story.
I recently had the opportunity to do something I’ve never done before and may never do again: attend the midnight screening of a popular film, opening night. See, my sister somehow won two tickets...
LDS Film: The Need For a New Distribution Model
Once Upon A Summer is a film released to DVD in 2009, and directed by Rob Diamond. It’s gotten decent reviews, and stars two actors I respect: Heather Beers (Charly, Baptists At Our Barbecue) and Matthew Reese (Beauty & The Beast, Rescued). In other words, it’s a film I’d be interested in...
Is trouble “brewing?" LDS actors get Super Bowl exposure
Two well-known LDS actors got a chance for world-wide exposure during the Super Bowl yesterday, appearing in two different commercials. Kirby Heyborne (The RM, Saints and Soldiers, Midway To Heaven) appeared in a “Cram It In The Boot” game show ad for Mini Cooper. And it sure looks like K.C....
LDS Film Festival 2011 Schedule Released
The 10th Annual LDS Film Festival, set to be held January 26-29 at the Scera Center in Orem, Utah, has released its official schedule. Some of the highlights of the festival schedule are: The premiere of Michael Flynn’s directorial debut Midway To Heaven (official site), based on the novel...
Movie Ratings and Content: Judging Profanity in Film
Mormon Life says: The author makes some interesting points about our culture's use of profanity.
Series Introduction: Movie ratings are traditionally based on three primary criteria: profanity, sex, and violence, with some additional emphasis on drug use. One of the flaws of the current...
Review: Esther and the King (B-)
Esther and the King is based — as you might expect — on the Old Testament book of Esther. As part of the “Liken” series of short films, Esther and the King combines a scriptural story with songs and dancing, along with a shorter run-time (about an hour) that won’t stress short attention spans. ...
Richard Dutcher and LDS film (Part 1)
It’s difficult to argue Richard Dutcher isn’t still the Father of Modern LDS Cinema, and regardless of your feelings towards his current relationship with the LDS Church, his comments on LDS cinema should still be heard and respected. Through his films God’s Army, Brigham City, and States of...
Using media in church meetings
While preparing to attend the Priesthood session of General Conference yesterday, I found myself remembering Elder Quentin L. Cook’s passing mention of the film Amazing Grace in an earlier session. He referred to the film and the song of the same name, calling both “inspiring.” I couldn’t remember...
Seeking for the Good (in film): Praise and Report
In this third installment of my series on using the 13th Article of Faith as a guide for media production and consumption, I will explore the ideas of good report and praiseworthiness as they apply to film. I thought about doing a separate post on each, but it seemed they were just too closely...
Judging the content of Film vs. Print
Mormon Life says: Is pointing out the mature material found in sacred text used as an excuse to watch mature material on film?
“If the Bible (or Book of Mormon) was a movie, it would be rated R…” A oft-heard phrase…notwithstanding they HAVE made movies based on the Bible and the Book of Mormon and most of them were not...
