Huge News: Many, Many More Theaters Will Now Show “Witnesses”

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I’m excited to announce that the number of theaters where the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film Witnesses will soon be available has just vastly increased.  Vastly.  Please take a look at the “Get Tickets” section on the Witnesses Film website and see whether there will now be a screening near you.  Please don’t assume, simply because none was listed in your area a few days or a few weeks ago, that none will be listed now.

Further: If you are interested in setting up a screening for your family or for a Church group (e.g., an elders quorum, or Young Men, or Young Women, or a stake), click on the button marked “Buy a Private Screening.”  I’m told that such screenings can be arranged, in many cases, for a quite reasonable price.

And, finally:   If you yourself happen to own a theater, or if someone whom you know owns a theater, please click on the “Own a Theater?” button on the Witnesses Film website.  There, you will be in a position to book the film for your theater.

Please, too, tell all the people that you know about Witnesses.  (Of course, if you see it and you don’t like it, please take a vow of silence!)

I’m deeply grateful for all of those who have made this possible and who have brought the project to this point.

The Witnesses film is, for good or for ill, now finished.  If it hasn’t already been sent out to theaters, it will be sent out before the end of today.  We who worked to create it can only sit back at this point and wait to see how it’s received.  Will people go to watch it?  Will it engender the conversation that we’ve hoped it would?  Time will tell.

As I’ve explained here before, I’ve learned that a movie’s performance on its opening weekend — for us, in the specific case of Witnesses, basically 4-5 June (Friday and Saturday) of next week (but also, in some areas, Wednesday, 2 June, and Thursday, 3 June) — is vitally important.  If a film tanks at the box office, it will probably soon disappear from theaters and finding additional screens on which to show it will become considerably more difficult.  If it performs well, if people go to see it, it will likely last longer in theaters and the case for yet other theaters to pick it up will become much more persuasive.

So I, personally, am very excited that the week of the premiere has finally arrived.  It’s taken us a long time and a very great deal of work to get here.  But, although I’m confident that the film is a good one and I’m happy that most who have seen various iterations of it thus far have liked it, I’m also, quite unavoidably, just a tad nervous.  Anticipation can be exciting.