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BYU-TV's First Look series is a weekly show that showcases student films in an effort to get them more recognition. The show usually showcases 2 or 3 student films and contains clips from each movie as well as interviews with the filmmakers. I really enjoyed watching this because I have never really had the opportunity to see all the work that goes into making a movie. I could assume it takes a

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Watching God's Army and The Best Two Years in the same night enabled me to see differences that I otherwise might not have seen. These two movies are completely different in their portrayal of missionary life and it made me really think about how I think it should be depicted on screen.Having never served a mission maybe I'm in no position to judge a films portrayal of it, but I felt like in

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I recently watched the Mormon musical Saturday's Warrior for the first time in probably 10 years and I must say it was a very interesting experience. What most intrigued me was how aggressively opposed to the movie EVERYONE was. When I told my roommates I was watching Saturday's Warrior I immediately found myself having to quickly explain that it was for a class (implying that there was no way I

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This years World Wide Leadership Training Meeting was much different than in years past. For starters, the meeting is published on the church's website for all to see time and again rather than being shown to a select few in a one-time meeting. To me this shows how important the council being given is to every member of the church.The format of this meeting was different than anything I've ever

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Last week we watched the film Together Forever which depicts couples and family's who have struggled with some of life's greatest questions such as: where do I go when I die? Can I have my family with me in the next life? What can I do to love my spouse and help our marriage? How do I turn my life around? These and other questions were answered in the film by showing these people tell "their

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I have grown up watching the Animated Stories from the Book of Mormon, The Greatest Adventure Series, and other similar films and think they are amazing learning tools for children. However, I have heard it argued that such films can be problematic and even detrimental to a child’s learning because they are not completely “accurate.” I have heard one person point out that once a child in her ward

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Last week we began the fourth wave of Mormon Cinema which has been characterized as the "Mass Media Era." One of the films we watched, and the one which will serve as the catalyst for the topic of my post, was "Where Jesus Walked." This film was produced by the BYU Motion Picture Studio in 1978. Its production was the crowning event of the long film career of Director Scott Whitaker. It was

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Darryl F. Zanuck's Brigham Young was originally released on September 27, 1940. This film is arguably the most important film in Mormon history. Just 18 short years earlier the film Trapped by the Mormons was released, which negatively depicted the Mormons. And just 11 years before that A Victim of the Mormons, the first anti-Mormon film, was shown to large audiences. Because of these films and

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Last Saturday at the LDS Film Festival I had the opportunity to watch "Emma Smith: My Story." I had heard from various graduate students in my Mormon History class (students who know their LDS history) that this film was very good and fairly accurate. So I decided this was one of the movies I wanted to see. I was not disappointed.The movie was made by the Joseph Smith Jr. and Emma Hale Smith

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The 1922 silent film "Trapped by the Mormons" is a classic example of the kind of fear surrounding the infant Mormon Church. The above authentic advertisement depicts a six-armed, devilish looking Mormon man gripping unsuspecting women in each hand. The flames in the background give the poster a fiery, hellish tone. Above the title are a series of newspapers with dramatic headlines such as "Slave

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