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The LDS Film Festival is still held annually in Orem, Utah, [39] usually around the same time as the Sundance Film Festival. [1] The 2020 festival commemorated 20 years of Mormon cinema: 20 years, that is, since the release of Richard Dutcher's God's Army, the film credited with starting the movement. [39]
Produced for the Sunday School board of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was designed as a training video for Sunday School teachers by showing the training needed to teach well.The collection has one copy on a film reel. How Near to the Angels: 1956 42 min.
He attended Park City High School and often attended the Sundance Film Festival. [5] In both high school and college, Batty participated in acting, improv comedy, and filmmaking. [5] After serving an LDS mission in New York City, [1] he graduated from Brigham Young University in 2001 with a film degree. [6]
The film premiered at Jordan Commons in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 5, 2019. [3] [4] It was also released at the Gretchen Nelson Scott Fine Arts Center at Mosley High School in Lynn Haven, Florida on December 11, 2019. [2] The film was also shown at the SCERA Center For the Arts in Orem, Utah as part of the LDS Film Festival. [1]
The Yankles is a 2009 film about a fictitious college-level baseball team made up of students from an Orthodox Yeshiva.. Directed by David R. Brooks, it was filmed in Utah with a "predominantly Mormon cast," the film was shown at a number of film festivals, winning a number of festival awards, although it was never theatrically released. [1]
Latter Days is a 2003 American romantic comedy drama film about the relationship between a closeted Mormon missionary and his openly gay neighbor. The film was written and directed by C. Jay Cox and stars Steve Sandvoss as the missionary, Aaron, and Wes Ramsey as the neighbor, Christian.
Latter Day Saints portal; See the article List of films of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for information on this category. See also the related article Mormon cinema and its associated category.
Richard Alan Dutcher [1] (born 1964) [2] is an American independent filmmaker who produces, writes, directs, edits, and frequently stars in his films. After making God's Army, a successful 2000 movie about LDS missionaries, Dutcher became well known among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).