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Metro

BYU graduate wins Audience Choice Award at Orem Film Festival

By Alyssa Lewis
October 12, 2026 09:52 AM
The Orem Film Festival has a goal to create community and celebrate filmmakers and their art. Last year marked the festival’s debut, and this year, BYU graduate Mira Plummer won the Audience Choice Award for her short film, “A Love Letter to My Parents.”
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Metro

Dark Cinema film festival debuts in Tooele

Abi Falin Horspool
By Abi Falin Horspool
October 21, 2024 11:51 AM
Local and global filmmakers alike showcased films at the first Dark Cinema film festival in Tooele, Utah on Saturday, Oct. 5.
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Movies & Television

Filmmakers, activists, politicians gather at Sundance to discuss gun violence in film

By Alyse Clark
January 25, 2024 12:00 AM
Prominent filmmakers, activists, and politicians gathered on Sunday, Jan. 21, to discuss how filmmakers can use their influence and storytelling to promote gun safety.
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Movies & Television

Sundance Local Lens event focuses on Utah film community

By Ethan Porter
July 31, 2023 12:00 AM
The Sundance Film Festival held its Local Lens event July 26-29 and showed nine indoor and outdoor screenings of festival favorites from 2023.
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Art

Hollywood strikes create uncertainty for future creators in filmmaking

By Joe Wirthlin
July 18, 2023 12:00 AM
The Hollywood writer and actor strikes around artificial intelligence in filmmaking are impacting more than just current writers and actors.
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Campus

Education Week: Life behind the silver screen

By Universe Contributor
August 21, 2018 12:00 AM
Filmmaker T.C. Christensen discussed his career as a director and cinematographer at Education Week on August 21. (Cristina Bolaños)
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Movies & Television

Film production in Utah provides jobs, opportunities

By Sam Bigelow
May 15, 2018 12:00 AM
When people think of movies, they often picture larger-than-life stars who attract massive audiences and amaze the world with their performances. However, for these stars to reach such heights, hundreds of crew members help create and film-imaginative worlds for the stars to inhabit.
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Movies & Television

VidAngel debuts 'Tim Timmerman';creators host Q&A

By Mckenna Park
March 06, 2017 12:00 AM
Eddie Perino. left, plays Tim Timmerman and Andrew Caldwell, right, plays Garrett Stubbs in VidAngel's first theatrical release, 'Tim Timmerman, Hope of America.' (Picture Picture Films, LLC)
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Movies & Television


Exploring cinema and craft is top priority at Sundance Film Festival

By Kara Mason
January 23, 2015 12:00 AM
Robert Redford leads a forum discussion at the Sundance Film Festival Day One press conference in 2014. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
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Movies & Television

Young filmmakers get the chance to shine at Little Hollywood Shootout

By David Lake
March 07, 2012 12:00 AM
Most 10-year-old boys watching YouTube videos get nothing more than a few laughs. When Trevor Black started watching YouTube, he began having dreams of being a filmmaker. The Little Hollywood Shootout set him on his way.
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