Folks stand on the purple carpet on the LDS Movie Competition, which is scheduled for March 2-5 on the SCERA Heart for the Arts in Orem, Utah. LDS Movie Competition
The movie “Waterman” options the life story of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, who is taken into account the daddy of modern-day browsing. Waterman
New co-owner and co-director Marshall Moore speaks at a previous LDS Movie Competition. LDS Movie Competition
Most individuals have in all probability by no means heard the title Duke Paoa Kahanamoku or know a lot about his many outstanding accomplishments.
The Hawaiian native, born in 1890, is the undisputed father of modern-day browsing.
He was a robust Olympic swimmer who gained three gold and two silver medals whereas competing within the 1912 Stockholm Video games, the 1920 Antwerp Video games and the 1924 Paris Video games. He additionally served as an alternate for the U.S. water polo crew within the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
He broke societal obstacles of discrimination and prejudice.
Kahanamoku, who died in 1968, additionally as soon as used a surfboard to rescue eight males from a capsized fishing boat.
The movie “Waterman” options the life story of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, who is taken into account the daddy of modern-day browsing.
Waterman
“Waterman,” an award-winning documentary about Kahanamoku’s life, would be the opening night time characteristic for the LDS Movie Competition, scheduled for March 2-5 on the SCERA Heart for the Arts in Orem.
The LDS Movie Competition, based in 2001, offers a spot for filmmakers to showcase family-friendly and faith-based tasks.
This 12 months the pageant is beneath new possession. Marshall and Michelle Moore, who function co-owners and administrators, acquired the pageant in March 2021. Their first transfer has been to rebrand the pageant with a brand new title.
New co-owner and co-director Marshall Moore speaks at a previous LDS Movie Competition.
LDS Movie Competition
“After a lot deliberation, filmmaker consultations and some surveys, we decided a pageant rebrand and title change was wanted,” Marshall Moore stated. “On the conclusion of this 12 months’s LDS Movie Competition we will probably be altering the title and rebranding the pageant to Zion Worldwide Movie Competition in 2023.”
This 12 months’s pageant contains characteristic movies, documentaries, quick movies and music movies. A schedule for the pageant is discovered at ldsfilms.com.
The pageant obtained nearly double the quantity of submissions this 12 months, with much less characteristic movies and extra quick movies and documentaries.
“The movies at this 12 months’s pageant are inherently totally different from each other, starting from true tales that encourage to movies that can make you giggle and produce you to tears,” Marshall Moore stated. “In watching the movies we realized there are such a lot of untold tales nonetheless on the market.”
Lots of the movies will probably be proven for the primary time on the pageant and filmmakers will probably be obtainable to reply questions following the presentation.
Here's a sampling of what audiences can see on the LDS Movie Competition.
‘Waterman’
“Waterman,” produced by Sidewinder Movies, explores the life and legacy of browsing legend, Olympic medalist and Hawaii native Duke Paoa Kahanamoku. The movie, narrated by actor and “Aquaman” star Jason Mamoa, has already obtained a number of awards and recognitions.
BYU head soccer coach Kalani Sitake, who lived in Hawaii when he was younger, will give opening remarks on the Wednesday, March 2, screening of “Waterman,” the Moores stated.
Redeemed: The Sione Havili Story
This 20-minute KSL common convention particular, narrated by former BYU and NFL participant Vai Sikahema, tells the story of against the law and penalties that altered the lifetime of a promising younger athlete.
‘All That Issues’ and ‘Sticks & Stones’
Actor and filmmaker Corbin Allred has produced two quick movies that handle youth bullying and suicide.
‘Lucy and Whitney’
Author and director Parker Gehring’s documentary follows the connection of two sisters after the older sister is married, within the context of the Latter-day Saint religion. Gehring is a graduate of Brigham Younger College.
‘Undaunted: Witnesses of the E book of Mormon’
To not be confused with the 2021 theatrical movie, “Witnesses,” “Undaunted” is a docudrama that takes a deeper dive into the historical past of the three males — Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris and David Whitmer — who grew to become witnesses of the E book of Mormon of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Whereas each movies are components of the identical general venture, Dan Peterson writes in a Patheos weblog, “Undaunted” additionally contains details about the extra eight witnesses of the E book of Mormon and options interviews with historians and others to offer depth and background to all accounts.