Films are uniquely powerful tools of communication and influence, but film-making is expensive. The basic cost of even our Witnesses film project, according to the budget meticulously prepared by our producer (who was making every effort to keep it low), comes out to 1.2 million dollars.
I’m pleased to say that we’ve now raised $950,000 of that amount, and that we have a firm pledge that would complete that funding. But that pledge will only materialize when we first reach one million dollars.
However, that leaves us, at this point, $50,000 short of where we want to be.
So — and you surely knew this was coming! — if you feel the urge to contribute to closing that gap, your donation (in any amount, small or large) would be appreciated. Seriously. (Please indicate that you want your donation to go to the Witnesses film, if that is your intention.) Alternatively, if you can recommend anybody who might be able to help, please contact me.
It’s actually possible that we’ll need to raise a bit more than the $1.2 million that we had budgeted — a few expenses (notably charges at distant film locations) came in surprisingly high, for example, and we’ve somewhat expanded our vision of what we want to do with materials to supplement the film(s) proper — but we’re very close.
And, again, to respond to potential concerns: None of this money, not a penny of it, will come to me or to any member of my family. I will earn no consulting fee, no percentage of the money raised, no portion of possible royalties. Nothing. (A small clique of anonymous online critics likes to accuse me, baselessly but with gleeful abandon, of profiteering from apologetics. See Revelation 22:15.)
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Hales Swift continues his series of short video presentations on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:
A Video Supplement for Come, Follow Me Lesson 29: “The Lord Had Called Us for to Preach the Gospel”
“Paul, the Prison Guard and the Two Great Commandments”
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Very short, but worthwhile:
“‘Alma’ in The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew”
“‘Mosiah’ in the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew”
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Some additional links related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
“How the NAACP and Latter-day Saints are working together to address inner city problems”
“President Nelson to national NAACP convention: We want to be ‘dear friends'”
I believe that, if we ever hope to have good Latter-day Saint cinema, we need to support efforts in that direction:
There is always hope:
“How My Grandfather, Hugh B. Brown, Saved Me”
I enjoyed this piece, by a student at BYU who is also a member of the U.S. national women’s volleyball team:
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You can take a partial form of the quiz yourself, if you would like. See how you do!
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Not surprisingly, it’s difficult to build a community simply on disinterest:
Posted from Canmore, Alberta, Canada
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