For a very limited time — up until 10 October 2024 — its creators are offering you the opportunity to view the 2021 Interpreter film Witnesses at no cost. If you go to the official website of Six Days in August and wait for just a few seconds, a button will appear that will enable you to learn how to avail yourself of this limited opening. Enjoy! With Mark Goodman, the writer and director of Six Days in August,... Read more
I really enjoyed this article by my friend Robert Starling, who is a multi-decade veteran of the film and television industry and who co-founded the organization called Associated Latter-day Media Artists, or ALMA: “The (Lord’s Media) Empire Strikes Back – with the light saber of truth.” If, like me, you’re interested in the image of Latter-day Saints in the media and/or you’re hoping that we will continue to develop our own artistic, literary, musical, and cinematic expressions, I think... Read more
I’ve already offered summaries of most of the presentations at Saturday’s Interpreter Foundation conference here and here. I’ll finish with such summarizing in this post. The fourth speaker during the afternoon portion of the conference was Professor Stephen D. Ricks, a longtime friend and both a former department colleague of mine and a former missionary companion in German-speaking Switzerland, who is also the principal organizer of the Temple on Mount Zion conferences. He addressed the topic of “Premortal Existence... Read more
Yesterday, I provided a few notes on the two morning sessions of the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, Temple on Mount Zion 2024, which focused on the theme “Seership, Craftsmanship, and Fellowship.” Today, I’ll continue with that effort. (We’ll see how far I get.) Those who returned sufficiently early from lunch were treated to a showing of Willy and Lilly Binene and the Saints of Luputa, an episode in the Interpreter Foundation’s Africa-focused Not by Bread Alone... Read more
Today, I attended the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference. The overall theme of these conferences, as befits Matt Brown’s interests, is “The Temple on Mount Zion.” The theme of this particular 2024 iteration of the conference was “Seership, Craftsmanship, and Fellowship.” The conference was not live-streamed, but it was recorded, and I presume that the conference videos will eventually be made public. In the end, too, the proceedings of the conference, perhaps including (in at least some... Read more
I’m pleased to announce that a second (and final) set of “sneak peek” early screenings for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will occur on Monday, 7 October — which is the day after General Conference — in the same nine Cinemark theaters that offered last night’s showings: Salt Lake City, Draper, American Fork, Orem, Midvale/Sandy, Farmington, Ogden, Provo, and West Jordan: “Six Days in August – Early Access” You might be amused to learn that... Read more
Tonight is the night! For the very first time, the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will be publicly screened in theaters. Although the formal public opening in theaters won’t take place until Thursday, 10 October, advance showings of the film will occur tonight at 7 PM in nine Cinemark theaters along the Wasatch Front — in American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Midvale/Sandy, Ogden, Orem, Provo, Salt Lake City, and West Jordan. Tickets can be purchased at Six... Read more
Well, I always knew that it would happen someday. I knew that I was bound to make a mistake. And I did. It happened this morning, when John Donovan Wilson (who plays Brigham Young in Six Days in August) and I were being interviewed earlier today by Tim Hughes and Amanda Dickson during their Utah’s Morning News program on KSL NewsRadio. (John and his wife, Twyla, who portrays Mary Ann Angell Young in the film) were on a KSL-TV... Read more
Yes, I’m reminding you yet again of the Six Days in August event that will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) night in the SCERA Center for the Arts, which is located in Orem: “Unveiling History: Six Days in August Fireside.” And I’m calling your attention once more to the “sneak peek” early screenings of Six Days in August that will be given in nine Carmike theaters along the Wasatch Front — in Ogden, Farmington, Salt Lake City, West Jordan, Midvale/Sandy,... Read more
The game is afoot! This is the week that things really begin to get underway for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August: There will be special early screenings of the film at 7 PM on Thursday — that is, this very week — in nine Carmike theaters along the Wasatch Front in Utah. These theaters are located in Ogden, Farmington, Salt Lake City, West Jordan, Midvale/Sandy, Orem, Provo, American Fork, and Draper. If you’re interested, you can... Read more
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