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Wednesday's screening of The Importance of Tolerance as part of the Tower Theatre's Open Mic Night seemed to go over fairly well. However, it did confirm something for me that I'd always kind of know: this one's for the insiders. If you've been a part of or near the Mormon community in your lifetime, particularly during your youth, this is going to make a lot more sense to you.

The style that I adopted in writing and directing this project was one emulative of short, instructive, and intendedly uplifting videos produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Is it parody? Is it satire? Is it spoof? I'm not entirely sure. However, it is a comedy. If you don't understand what iconography we're cashing in on with this shot of Daniel praying in a grove, you're probably going to be missing out a lot.

I'd love to be able to show you what these videos look like, but the dedicated piracy artists that populate YouTube seem none too eager to upload the contents of LDS Family Home Evening Videos. Especially, I'd like to share "The Joy of Missionary Work," which had particular influence on the style of this film. I assembled a brief primer over at my personal blog that might give you a little bit more of a clue as to what we're drawing on.

Much thanks to everyone who worked on this project. The film just wouldn't be the same if my long-time friend William Stewart hadn't traveled to town to start. His chemistry with our own Joseph Schlegel was a wonder to behold. Also, WiL Whitlark wrote a positively wonderful score and theme song featured on the soundtrack here.

Labels: Embedded Video, Release announcements, The Importance of Tolerance

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Learn Something About Tolerance

Posted on February 16, 2008 by John D. Moore

John here. I've just finished putting the last touches on what we're calling the first final edit of The Importance of Tolerance. It's been a long time in post-production, but I'm feeling really good about where it is right now. WiL Whitlark has composed a beautiful soundtrack for the film and I'm eager to show it off to you.

But first, if all goes according to plan, we'll be premiering it at this Wednesday's Open Mic Night (February 20th) at the Salt Lake Film Society's Tower Theatre, playing alongside an assortment of other local filmmakers' shorts. Admission to the screening is free and--in its freeness--is so totally worth it.

If you miss it, I expect to have the film posted online within a week. However, this may be your only chance to witness it on the silver screen.

What: World premier of new short film The Importance of Tolerance
When: February 20, 2008, 9:00 PM
Where: Tower Theatre, 876 East 900 South, Salt Lake City, UT
Why: To grow your faith and support your filmmaking community.
How: By any means necessary.

If you attend, please feel free to seek me out, say hello, and exchange a few words.

UPDATED 2/20/2008: The Tower Theatre is no longer charging admission. It's free, baby!

Labels: Public screenings, The Importance of Tolerance

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Brand New Game

Posted on October 12, 2007 by John D. Moore

Greetings, poetry lovers! If you've been here before, you're probably noticing how different it is (unless you're now on a subsequent visit after the relaunch). If you haven't been here before, you're probably noticing something else entirely. What that is, I cannot say.

At any rate, the website has been completely reformatted and retooled. News posts are now going to chronicle development of projects, not just the all-too-infrequent release announcements of new movies. This is also going to be a team blog, so other members of the Bombdotcom Productions staff can more easily contribute content.

So, beyond the cosmetic, what's new around here? First off, we've uploaded all of our work onto a YouTube channel, the videos from which can be seen on the individual film pages. Downloads for most movies are still available, but the modes of media distribution on the Internet have changed since we initially started making movies three years ago. Please do feel free to rate and comment on the videos on their YouTube pages.

Additionally, a new animated film, The Frog Prince was completed and released a couple months ago. That's now here.

Currently, we have three projects in production and post-production. Stills are available for The Interconnection of Mr. Daily, a Joseph Schlegel-penned project that should see release by the end of the month, and The Importance of Tolerance, with some more news related to the latter available on my personal blog. There's also some tantalizing plot details regarding our three-years-in-development Halloween film, Terror Drives a Van.

Over the next few months, I'm going to figure out a way to get online some of the additional content that was produced for all of our 2004 productions, including commentary tracks. Stay tuned.

We've been dead for a while. But now we're moving forward and not looking back. Isn't that nice and inspirational?

Labels: Terror Drives a Van, The Importance of Tolerance, The Interconnection of Mr. Daily, Website

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