20th Annual LDS Film Festival Announces Award Winning Films
OREM, UT — The LDS Film Festival (LDSFF) celebrated its 20th anniversary in person at the SCERA Center for the Arts this past week (February 24-27) with a full slate of films, panels, and an award...
View ArticleSee the Trailer for New Movie MISSION STORIES
Salt Lake City – Excel Entertainment announced today the creation of a new media franchise, MISSION STORIES, focused entirely on telling stories of missionaries for The Church of Jesus-Christ of...
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Wes Johnson: The Gifted Cinematographer of “Lamb of God”
Rob Gardner’s “Lamb of God” concert film is a three-hanky event as it celebrates the last days of Jesus’ life. Part of the power lies in the cinematography, created by Wes Johnson, who magically...
View ArticleTickets for Highly Anticipated Film “WITNESSES” Now on Sale
Purdie Distribution and producers of the highly anticipated film, WITNESSES, announced today that tickets are now on sale for the film’s opening weekend. The epic family film of the summer opens...
View ArticleVIDEO: Meridian Live Interview with the Creators of MISSION STORIES
In case you missed it, Meridian went live on Facebook to interview the director and two of the cast members from the upcoming film, Mission Stories. Mission Stories is an upcoming anthology film based...
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MISSION STORIES Delivers a Stunning Look at the Faith and Redemption of...
Excel Entertainment released information last month about the creation of a new media franchise focused entirely on telling stories of missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
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Latter-day Saint Movie Review: A Great Family Movie Night–The Mitchells vs...
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This animated family adventure by Phil Lord and Chris Miller is completely adorable and a contender for “Best Animation” for next year’s Academy Awards. It’s about a quirky,...
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“Witnesses”: A Powerful and Authentic Look at Early Church Leaders
Witnesses comes to theatres this Friday, June 4. To get tickets for a screening near you, CLICK HERE. As the serene and peaceful opening moments of a moonlit sky quickly transition to a fast-paced...
View ArticleSee the Movie that Enemies of the Church Don’t Want You to See
To read more from Daniel, visit his blog: Sic Et Non In my immediately previous post, I observed that the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film is being “review bombed” over on the “Rotten Tomatoes”...
View ArticleWhy Do We Care If There Were Witnesses?
Shortly after a few of us had decided to create a group of films regarding the witnesses of the Book of Mormon, I sought out four of the grand figures in the modern study of Latter-day Saint history,...
View ArticleWhy the Story of Black Pioneer, Green Flake, Has to Be Shared
What makes the life of Green Flake worthy of the new motion picture about his life and a Monument to his memory? The answer can be found in a very remarkable and profound way. He overlooked prejudice...
View ArticleOnce I Was Engaged!: A New Latter-day Saint RomCom
From the creators of Once I Was a Beehive! comes a new romantic comedy about Bree Carrington, a girl who wants to live the ideal life of attending BYU Hawaii, going on a mission, and marrying the man...
View ArticleSee the New Trailer for “Once I Was Engaged”
You may remember 2015’s “Once I was a Beehive”, a film that told the charming and quirky experience of a young woman attending a Latter-day Saint Girl’s Camp and learning some important lessons along...
View ArticleVIDEO: Meridian Live with “Once I Was Engaged” Creators
There was a huge buzz (pun intended) surrounding ONCE I WAS A BEEHIVE during the last half of 2015. And the cast is back to bring you more of the story in 2021. Carrie Carrington (Lisa Valentine...
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“Once I Was Engaged”: A Lighthearted Romp with a Strong Heartbeat
The first “Once I Was….” released in 2015 told the story of a group of Beehive girls and their adventures at a Latter-day Saint girls camp one summer. It is a delightful, well-written film with a...
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After Grossing $10 Million at the Box Office, “The Chosen” Christmas Special...
“The Chosen”, the streaming TV series about the life of Christ, has been groundbreaking since its beginnings. It broke records to become the highest crowd-funded media project of all time. Now, two...
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Latter-day Saint Producers of “The Chosen” Discuss Pushback Show’s Creator...
The following is excerpted from LDS Living. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Derral Eves, one of two Latter-day Saint executive producers of the hit show The Chosen, knows the show’s creator,...
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LDS Film Festival Announces Lineup and Rebrand
Editor’s Note: Among the other wonderful films in this year’s LDS Film Festival line-up, Meridian writer Mariah Proctor has a film that she wrote and directed screening in the Shorts section. Keep an...
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“The Mission”: Sundance Documentary Presents Unprecedented, Intimate Look at...
Included among the wide variety of films that have been screening at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the last week, was an unprecedented and intimate look into the experience of being a full-time...
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LDS Film Festival Announces Lineup and New Vision
Celebrating twenty-one years of programming in 2022, the LDS Film Festival has promoted cinema as a means of conversation and perspective that often touches the heart and opens the mind. What began as...
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