9TH LDS FILM FESTIVAL 2010
JANUARY 20-23, 2010 | SCERA CENTER, OREM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21

Tickets for all events are available beginning Monday, January 11, at 801-225-ARTS, online at scera.org or at the door. Click here for admissions information.

All events are open to the public and take place at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem (745 South State Street).

2:00 pm | Special Screening
Scera Xango Grand Theatre

Exploring The Connection Between Mormons and Masons
Documentary, 39 minutes, color, 2009
Director: Brandon Smith
The subject of Joseph Smith and Freemasonry sparks a wide range of responses among Latter-day Saints, from curiosity to suspicion to outright excitement. Is there an ancient relationship between the Masonic lodge rites and the Mormon temple ordinances? Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

Sacred Walls
Documentary, 38 minutes, color, 2009
Director: Brandon Smith
For Latter-day Saints, temples are the most important and symbolic buildings in existence. Through temples the unique doctrines of the restored gospel are communicated. Although the bulk of this instruction occurs inside the temples, temple exteriors also tell of these profound doctrines-when you understand how to read them. Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

2:30 pm | Special Screening
Scera Showhouse II

I Am from Nowhere: The People History Ignored
Documentary, 37 minutes, color, 2010
Director: Jonathan Martin
This is the story about a people ignored by history. About a people with no country to call their own. About a people subjugated by genocide. This is the story of the Lemkos, a people whom you have never heard of until now, and their story will change your life. Ignored for centuries, the Lemkos were persecuted, tortured, driven from their homes, scattered, and then forgotten all because they were different. The film traces the Lemkos from their origins to the concentration camps imposed on them during World War I, to the genocide of Operation Vistula after World War II, to the reawakening of their national identity today. An emotional journey filmed on location in Poland, Slovakia, Canada, and the United States featuring interviews with historians, survivors of Operation Vistula, and many other Lemkos from around the world. Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

Rei Hamon: Man of Nature
Documentary, 55 minutes, color, 2009
Director: Reina Webster-Iti
Rei Hamon became an artist after a back injury left him with his first idle moments. In his own words “then the art came. One door shuts and another more beautiful one opens.” The documentary follows Rei's life, as a child growing up on the East Coast of New Zealand, to rural bushman, conservationist, internationally renowned artist and loved family patriarch. Rei Hamon: Man of Nature was made with the Hamon whanau (family) and features Rei’s art, along with beautiful photographs and from an almost forgotten era.

4:30 pm | Feature Film:
Sundance Skippy
Scera Xango Grand Theatre

Documentary, 85 minutes, color, 2009
Official Website: Sundance Skippy
Director: Mark Hedengren; Producer: Mark Hedengren; Director of Photography: Mark Hedengren; Editor: Mark Hedengren.
Cast: Aldo Wug, Scott "Skippy" Jessop, Kristen Stewart, Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Liam Neeson, Michael Cera, John Krasinski, and many more. For a complete list, click here.

Synopsis:
Skippy seeks to win the love of celebrities and a woman by getting his photographs taken with as many famous people as possible. Will he do it? Watch Sundance Skippy and find out. In this whimsical documentary, Skippy has encounters with Kristen Stewart, Josh Brolin, Uma Thurman, Zooey Daschanel and many others as he seeks that perfect woman and that perfect photograph. This is a film that you and your friends will love to talk about.

Q&A with the filmmaker after the screening.

Screenings:
Thursday, January 21, 4:30 pm, Scera Xango Grand Theatre

5:00 pm | Special Screening
Scera Showhouse II

Born to Ride: Cody Wright and the Quest for a World Title
Documentary, 60 minutes, color, 2009
Director: Lyman Hafen, Jon M. Smith
A tale of one year of a saddle bronc rider's trail to glory. Come along for the ride as Cody Wright hits the rodeo trail on a quest to win the 2008 Saddle Bronc Riding World Championship. The 31-year-old father of four had been to the Wrangler National Finals five times, and more than once the title had almost been his before it slipped from his grasp. Now, if he was going to win the world in 2008, he would have to outride the man he had idolized since boyhood—45-year-old Billy Etbauer, one of the greatest to climb on a bucking horse. Narrated by Wilford Brimley. Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

Return to Little Hollywood
Documentary, 38 minutes, color, 2009
Director, Producer: Stephen B. Armstrong
Return to Little Hollywood brings attention to the history of the film industry's presence in Southern Utah, where great movies like Western Union, MacKenna's Gold, and The Outlaw Josey Wales were filmed. It not only includes footage of old sets and the region's magnificent landscape, but also interviews with stars who worked there. Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

6:30 pm | 24-Hour Filmmaking Marathon:
Short Films Made in Only 24 Hours
Scera Xango Grand Theatre

Don't miss the screening of the 8TH 24-HOUR FILMMAKING MARATHON this year. We will screen all 49 films that were made in only 24 hours a week prior to the festival. An amazing line-up of multiple 3-minute short films awaits you.

The theme of this year's marathon was Charity, the object a rock, and the dialogue line "I'm the one who...".

The winners of the marathon will be announced at the award ceremony on Saturday, January 23, at 9:45 p.m.

Screenings:
Thursday, January 21, 6:30 pm, Scera Xango Grand Theatre

7:30 pm | Feature Film:
Berlin
Scera Showhouse II

Musical, 119 minutes, color, 2008
Director: Steve Lowe, Tim Threlfall; Writer: Erik Orton; Producer: Russ Richins; Executive Producers: Sterling VanWagenen, Rodger Sorensen; Production Designer: Doug Ellis; Original Score: Erik Orton; Editor: Nathan Grout; Music Director: Ross Boothe; Choreographer: Michelle Boothe; Audio Mix: Scott Sandstrom, Jake Peery.
Cast: Emily Blewitt, Darick Pead, Ken Ecklof, Mary Jane Wadley, Makenna James, Ian Jones, Kevin Goertzen, Reese Purser, Benjamin King, Jeff Dickamore, Devin Williams, Erik Agle, Ward Wright, Brannon Killgo, Annalece Boothe, Carolyn Hartvigsen, Shayla Osborne.

Synopsis:
Post World War II Berlin is the setting for this musical dramatization of real life events depicting the struggle of a people sick of war and their yearning to be free. In a blatant attempt to force Berliners to unify Berlin under Communist rule, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin orders a total blockade of supplies to western held sectors of the city. The United States, Great Britain and France, in an effort to sustain the over two million people of West Berlin, operates an air-bridge flying millions of tons of food, fuel, and supplies into the city for fifteen months in the largest airlift in aviation history.

Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

Screenings:
Thursday, January 21, 7:30 pm, Scera Showhouse II

9:00 pm | Feature Film:
The Book of Jer3miah
Scera Xango Grand Theatre

Web Series - Complete Season One, 122 minutes, color, 2009
Official Website: The Book of Jer3miah
Director: Jeff Parkin, Jared Cardon; Writer: David Jon Banks, Jared Cardon, Scott Clarke, Lyvia Martinez, Jeff Parkin, Matt Pieper, Taylor Rose, James Shores; Producer: Jared Cardon, Jeff Parkin, Brad Cummings, Justin Bogh; Executive Producer: Jeff Parkin, Jared Cardon; Director of Photography: Devin Graham, Devin Graham, Nathan Armstrong, Austen Everett, Byron Kirkland, Matt Long, Matt Love, Paul Meyers, Derek Pueblo, Ephriam Smith, A. Todd Smith, Cole Webley; Production Designer: Adis Regar; Original Score: Ben Carson, Alan Williams; Editor: Karen Worth, Michelle Ballamis, Phil Goodwin, Sarah Jensen Rasmussen, Taylor Rose, Lindsay Gwynn Walton.
Cast: Jared Shores, Jeff Blake, Richie Uminski, Christopher “Critter” Davis, Becca Ingram, Camee Anderson Faulk, Jourdan Lance, Blaine Quarnstrom, Gary Reimer, Anne Sward, Reese Purser, Matthew Carlin, Douglas E. Brinley, Stephanie Brienholt, Ward Wright, Elizabeth Funk, Megan Sanborn Jones, Austin Everett, Rodger Sorensen, Jon Bell, Noteworthy.

Synopsis:
On his 18th birthday, college freshman Jeremiah Whitney is given the charge to protect a mysterious box, and immediately becomes the target of a terrifying conspiracy. Soon every facet of his life is called into question, and now he must uncover the truth about the box, the conspiracy and his very identity before it's too late.

Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

Screening:
Thursday, January 21, 9:00 pm, Scera Xango Grand Theatre