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Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:15:22 PM

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LDS FILM FESTIVAL
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After Wednesday's sold out opening night film "Forever Strong," the Scera Center for the Arts was again packed Thursday night with
hundreds of festival attendees.

We are now looking forward to Friday and Saturday, when most of the festival's events take place. Here are the Friday highlights:

FEATURE FILMS:
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12:30 p.m.: THE PRATT BROTHERS: BUILDERS OF ZION
2:30 p.m.: ARTICLE VI: FAITH. POLITICS. AMERICA.
5:00 p.m.: TEARS OF A KING: THE LATTER DAYS OF ELVIS
7:30 p.m.: THE ERRAND OF ANGELS
7:30 p.m.: TAKE
9:45 p.m.: THE ELEVENTH HOUR
9:45 p.m.: TAKE
For details visit: http://www.ldsfilmfestival.org/08_features.php

SPECIAL SCREENINGS AND SHORT FILM COMPETITION:
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12:00 p.m.: STORPIO / GLASS CANVAS / $1.11 / BLUETIFUL
2:30 p.m.: ISLAND GIRL / BLIND FAITH / WRESTLING WITH GOD
5:00 p.m.: SHORT FILM COMPETITION PROGRAM A
For details visit: http://www.ldsfilmfestival.org/08_specials.php

FILMMAKER PRESENTATIONS:
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10:00 a.m.: MCKAY DAINES, MICHAEL FLYNN
11:00 a.m.: DAVE LINDSAY, JASON CONFORTO
12:00 p.m.: BEN UNGUREN
1:00 p.m.: BRIGHAM COTTAM, KARL BOWMAN
2:00 p.m.: JACOB GULBRANSEN
3:00 p.m.: CHARLES OLIVER
4:00 p.m.: CHRISTIAN VUISSA
For details visit: http://www.ldsfilmfestival.org/08_presentations.php

Come join us today at this year's LDS Film Festival at the Scera Center for the Arts in Orem.

LDS Film Festival, P.O. Box 50812, Provo, UT 84605-0812, USA
Andrew Hall
Posted: Saturday, January 19, 2008 4:49:07 PM

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Gideon Burton is blogging about the festival, so far he has done articles about Ryan Little's Forever Strongand the documentary Happy Valley.
http://gideonburton.typepad.com/gideon_burtons_blog/

Mahonri, you blogged it last year, are you going to this year too? Please? I'll hurry up with my theater article, I promise. I hope we hear from more of you Utah folk.
Mahonri Stewart
Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:57:23 AM


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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend this year. I've been immersed in two major projects, one for Zarahemla Books and one for James Arrington, and have some pressing deadlines. Not to mention I'm sick right now, so I wasn't able to go. Which is a shame, I love the festival and so wanted to attend.

Upon the stage of a theater can be represented in character, evil and its consequences, good and its happy results and rewards; the weakness and the follies of man, the magnamity of virtue and the greatness of truth. The stage can be made to aid the pulpit in impressing upon the minds of a community an enlightened sense of a virtuous life, also a proper horror of the enormity of sin and a just dread of its consequences. The path of sin with its thorns and pitfalls, its gins and snares can be revealed, and how to sun it (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.243; Bookcraft, 199cool
Trevor Banks
Posted: Sunday, February 03, 2008 2:22:17 PM

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Can anyone tell me why this is scheduled at the same time as Sundance? Is there a hope to attract the crowds of Sundance or perhaps the distribution or associations of Sundance? Has this ever happened? It seems to me to create a binary that doesn't seem to help the status of Mormon film any. Sundance is indirect opposition to LDS film by virtue of this scheduling. No one can possibly attend all of either festival let alone both.

I haven't been impressed with much at sundance over the past several years (a Korean-American film financed by Atom Egoyan and only this year picked up by KINO international, though it was released 2 years ago at the festival), but it seems like it would be an event Mormon filmmakers and audiences would try to take advantage of, not rival. The entries there are so blatantly anti-Christian orthodoxy and sometimes anti-mormon specifically, it seems like that would be a far better forum to search a voice in (not to mention a better... forgive the phrase... missionary opportunity. I can't tell you how many people we've met who say "I've never met a Mormon like you," meaning they've probably never met a Mormon).

Have I missed the boat, or was this scheduling decision not such a good idea?

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