Occasionally, I receive news releases that for various reasons just have to be posted. This is one of them. ~Wm
PASSAGE TO ZARAHEMLA ALREADY GROSSES MORETHAN ALL 2007 LDS FILMS COMBINED
Salt Lake City, UT — In just fourteen days since its release, Passage to Zarahemla, has already beat all other LDS films combined [...]
Tyler Ford’s Anxiously Engaged: A Piccadilly Romance and an examination of the intrusion of Mormonism in Mormon Cinema.
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” Carl Gustav Jung
Upon initial viewing, Tyler Ford’s Anxiously Engaged: A Piccadilly Romance (2005) is a difficult film to classify [...]
The following news release was sent to me by the Whitney Awards Committee. ~Wm
PROVO, UT—OCTOBER 23, 2007, The Whitney Awards Committee announced today that they will be offering seven large cash awards to be presented at the upcoming Whitney Awards banquet in March 2008. These cash prizes are due to the generosity [...]
Note: this is the third in a series of posts of ideas for improving/growing/sustaining the field of Mormon narrative arts.
There are plenty of online stores selling Mormon fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. From the various LDS publishers Web sites to Mormon-oriented stores like LDS Living and Latter-day Harvest to national super sellers like Amazon.com.
The [...]
Editor’s note: Christian Vuissa was kind enough to take time out of a very busy schedule to provide a bio and do the following Q&A for AMV. ~Wm
Bio: A native of Austria, Christian Vuissa graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University’s Media Arts program in August 2002 and is considered one of the most [...]
I recently read By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, Terryl Givens’ groundbreaking, fascinating look at the reception and uses and abuses of Joseph Smith’s “gold bible.” I highly recommend it. And, yes, many of AMV’s readers have probably already read it. I’m behind on my Mormon Studies [...]
I have heard people say that Mormon temples are not good architecture. I think I understand where they are coming from. I just disagree.