EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE IS MONDAY, DECEMBER 14
Save on the entry fee by submitting your film by Monday, December 14. The extended submission deadline is January 11, 2016. Submit your work to the 15th Annual LDS Film Festival 2016 and win cash awards totaling $3,000.
The LDS Film Festival is a perfect venue to premiere your film in front of industry professionals and an appreciative audience. The festival is independently organized and not affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
“If Michael Buble and Joni Mitchell had a love child raised by Jimi Hendrix and babysat by Norah Jones, that child would be Ryan Innes… His is a talent you hear once in a few lifetimes. His music makes you want to love harder, hurt deeper, and let go of all your inhibitions, leaving you speechless—until you learn the words well enough to sing along.” Thus Ashlie Lohner of Reverbnation describes the local sensation whose soul, boldness, and smooth singing propelled him onto The Voice and...
We invite and encourage all LDS and Utah filmmakers to participate in the 15th Annual LDS Film Festival 2016 and submit their work to the festival. The festival offers around $3,000 in cash awards and a perfect venue to premiere your film to a large and appreciative audience.
The LDS Film Festival strives to annually present a diverse spectrum of films that represent the status quo of current filmmaking in the LDS film community. The festival is independently organized and not affiliated with...
Dozens of LDS films have been released over the years, starting with Brigham Young in 1940 up to The Cokeville Miracle in 2015. A fairly comprehensive list can be found on the LDS Cinema page on Wikipedia, which can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDS_cinema. These films cover a wide range for genres from romance and comedy to drama and documentary. There are many movies in each genre that are worthy of your attention, and I’m sure that everyone has their own favorites. Here is my...
What’s next in the LDS film genre? We’ve had documentaries and dramas about missionaries and pioneers. We’ve had biographies on famous Mormons. We’ve had war dramas. And we’ve had numerous comedies based on Mormon pop culture. There is also a lot of interest in bible stories in Christian cinema and even mainstream Hollywood too. However, I think there is plenty of room for new ideas in the genre; here are a few concepts that I think might be interesting to explore.
My first suggestion...
LDS films can be classified into a number of genres, including: drama, documentaries, comedy, adventure, and romance, and you can argue that many of them target male or female audiences. It is difficult to classify movies into a gender-based genre without falling into stereotype, but I will suggest a few films that may have wider appeal to one gender over another. My purpose is not to stereotype, but to offer a basis for viewers to consider when selecting a movie that may be appealing to...
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