8: The Mormon Proposition Articles

Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right Lisa Cholodenko's Oscar-nominated The Kids Are All Right was announced as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) choice for Outstanding Film – Wide Release of 2010 at a ceremony held at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. Glee's Naya Rivera was the evening's hostess. Co-written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All [...]

Reed Cowan's 8: The Mormon Proposition received two "sustained standing ovations" at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday, reports Sean P. Means in The Salt Lake Tribune. A rumored protest against the film failed to materialize. Narrated by Milk's Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black — who happens to be gay and to have been raised Mormon — 8: The Mormon Proposition accuses the [...]

8: The Mormon Proposition, Reed Cowan's (photo) controversial documentary on the connection between the Latter-day Saints Church and the passage of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California in fall 2008, has sold out five screenings at the Sundance Film Festival, according to a report in Cache Valley's Herald Journal. (That's in northern Utah.) The report adds that tickets for 8: The Mormon Proposition "were [...]

SUNDANCE 2010: SPOTLIGHT (DOCUMENTARIES) Climate Refugees by Michael Nash Film info from the Sundance press release. 8: The Mormon Proposition / USA (Director: Reed Cowan) — An examination of the relationship between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 denying marriage rights for Gay and Lesbian couples. World Premiere Catfish / USA (Directors: Henry Joost [...]