Brandon Purdie<\/a> and his associates went the extra mile to get it to us in time for FairMormon.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I recorded a voice-over for that commercial just this morning, and these are the golden words that I spoke:<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m going to show you a piece of \u201ckey art\u201d along with a potential trailer for the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s forthcoming Witnesses<\/em> theatrical film, which is part of a larger ensemble of related projects.\u00a0 You\u2019re the first audience to see these.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
[Trailer]<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I hope that your interest was piqued by these materials.\u00a0 I hope that they made you want to go see the film in a theater when the coronavirus permits its release.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you would like to have the film shown in your area, please contact us at<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
[special dedicated email address that I\u2019m not inclined to publicize here just yet]<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
and we\u2019ll try to make that happen.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The theatrical film will be the first part of a three-part overall undertaking, which will also include an accompanying docudrama and a flotilla of short 3-5-minute online videos.\u00a0 Altogether, we\u2019re trying to engage candidly every serious issue that we can identify regarding the lives, the testimonies, and the character of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon\u2014the Three, the Eight, and the several additional unofficial witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I also recorded my 2020 FairMormon remarks this morning, entitled \u201cThe Witnesses: Variety and Complexity.\u201d\u00a0 The first five minutes or so of my presentation actually consist of three brief clips from the Witnesses<\/em> film.\u00a0 It also includes still images from the movie.\u00a0 (Thanks to Mark Goodman, James Jordan, and Russell Richins for those materials.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, I recorded a companion piece for 2020 BYU Education Week.\u00a0 It\u2019s entitled \u201cThe Witnesses: Sincerity and Reality,\u201d\u00a0 and I\u2019m told that it will go online sometime in October.\u00a0 Along with additional still images from the Witnesses<\/em> film and the three clips that appear in the FairMormon presentation, it also includes a fourth clip that\u2019s roughly 2.5 minutes long.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t have managed these two talks (and, specifically, all of the images and the technology that they required) without the generous help of my friend Tom Pittman and my wife.\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful to them, and I hope that people enjoy their work.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 The 2020 FairMormon conference begins on Wednesday, 5 August 2020 \u2014 as I write, that\u2019s tomorrow (i.e.\u00a0ma\u00f1ana) \u2014 and it will be done virtually.\u00a0 Which isn\u2019t altogether a good thing, obviously, since many of us enjoy the social aspects of it and the sheer power of gathering in a group.\u00a0 But it has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,259,1152,1149,1242,2106,984,873,114,2160,8870,5688,921],"class_list":["post-87185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-book-of-mormon-witnesses","tag-brigham-young-university","tag-byu","tag-byu-education-week","tag-education-week","tag-fairmormon","tag-film","tag-interpreter-foundation","tag-movie","tag-project","tag-three-witnesses","tag-witnesses"],"yoast_head":"\n
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