https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&feed=atom&action=history Scott Swofford:Mormon Producer - Revision history 2024-03-29T00:35:50Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.29.1 https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&diff=62192&oldid=prev Phicken at 03:51, 1 August 2021 2021-08-01T03:51:48Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:51, 1 August 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2" >Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He has shot film in 55 different countries. Besides ''Roving Mars'' for Disney, he produced the $100 million IMAX hit ''Mysteries of Egypt'' for National Geographic, ''Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure'' for NOVA, and ''Amazon'', which was nominated for an Academy Award.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He has shot film in 55 different countries. Besides ''Roving Mars'' for Disney, he produced the $100 million IMAX hit ''Mysteries of Egypt'' for National Geographic, ''Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure'' for NOVA, and ''Amazon'', which was nominated for an Academy Award.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He was also the BYU ([[Brigham Young University]]) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv from 2010 to 2016. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of [http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">www.mormon</del>.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </del>Church of Jesus Christ.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He was also the BYU ([[Brigham Young University]]) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv from 2010 to 2016. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of [http://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">comeuntochrist</ins>.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>Church of Jesus Christ.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After leaving BYU Broadcasting, Swofford was president of Radiant Studios, part of Deseret Management Corporation. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After leaving BYU Broadcasting, Swofford was president of Radiant Studios, part of Deseret Management Corporation. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10" >Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, ''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off series called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, ''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off series called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">LDS </del>missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called ''The District'', was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Latter-day Saint </ins>missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called ''The District'', was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011. He also directed the BYUtv series ''Extinct.'' In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011. He also directed the BYUtv series ''Extinct.'' In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19" >Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{DEFAULTSORT:Swofford, Scott}}</ins></div></td></tr> </table> Phicken https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&diff=51165&oldid=prev Phicken at 03:00, 16 October 2019 2019-10-16T03:00:30Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:00, 16 October 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6" >Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After leaving BYU Broadcasting, Swofford was president of Radiant Studios, part of Deseret Management Corporation. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After leaving BYU Broadcasting, Swofford was president of Radiant Studios, part of Deseret Management Corporation. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes ''Seasons of the Heart'' (1993), ''Rigoletto'' (1993), ''The Great American West'' (1995<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">), ''Mysteries of Egypt'' (1998</del>), ''Olympic Glory'' (1999), ''The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd'' (2000), ''The Work and the Glory'' (2004), and ''The Work and the Glory: American Zion'' (2005).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes ''Seasons of the Heart'' (1993), ''Rigoletto'' (1993), ''The Great American West'' (1995), ''Olympic Glory'' (1999), ''The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd'' (2000), ''The Work and the Glory'' (2004), and ''The Work and the Glory: American Zion'' (2005).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, ''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off series called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, ''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off series called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv. &#160;</div></td></tr> </table> Phicken https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&diff=51164&oldid=prev Phicken at 02:54, 16 October 2019 2019-10-16T02:54:08Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:54, 16 October 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8" >Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes ''Seasons of the Heart'' (1993), ''Rigoletto'' (1993), ''The Great American West'' (1995), ''Mysteries of Egypt'' (1998), ''Olympic Glory'' (1999), ''The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd'' (2000), ''The Work and the Glory'' (2004), and ''The Work and the Glory: American Zion'' (2005).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes ''Seasons of the Heart'' (1993), ''Rigoletto'' (1993), ''The Great American West'' (1995), ''Mysteries of Egypt'' (1998), ''Olympic Glory'' (1999), ''The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd'' (2000), ''The Work and the Glory'' (2004), and ''The Work and the Glory: American Zion'' (2005).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, ''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off series called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, ''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off series called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called ''The District'', was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called ''The District'', was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv. &#160;</div></td></tr> </table> Phicken https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&diff=51163&oldid=prev Phicken at 02:53, 16 October 2019 2019-10-16T02:53:47Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:53, 16 October 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Scott_Swofford.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Scott Swofford Mormon film and TV producer|left]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Scott_Swofford.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Scott Swofford Mormon film and TV producer|left]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He has shot film in 55 different countries. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He is also </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">BYU ([[Brigham Young University]]) Broadcasting creative director and director </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">content </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">BYUtv. He is the former director of media </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the missionary department of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of </del>which <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he is a member</del>. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He has shot film in 55 different countries. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Besides ''Roving Mars'' for Disney, he produced </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">$100 million IMAX hit ''Mysteries </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt'' </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">National Geographic, ''Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure'' </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">NOVA, and ''Amazon''</ins>, which <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was nominated for an Academy Award</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Swofford earned a bachelor’s degree in motion picture and TV from </del>Brigham Young University <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in 1979</del>. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He was also the BYU ([[</ins>Brigham Young University<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv from 2010 to 2016. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for The Church of Jesus Christ.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After leaving BYU Broadcasting, Swofford was president of Radiant Studios, part of Deseret Management Corporation</ins>. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes ''Seasons of the Heart'' (1993), ''Rigoletto'' (1993), ''The Great American West'' (1995), ''Mysteries of Egypt'' (1998), ''Olympic Glory'' (1999), ''The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd'' (2000), ''The Work and the Glory'' (2004), and ''The Work and the Glory: American Zion'' (2005).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes ''Seasons of the Heart'' (1993), ''Rigoletto'' (1993), ''The Great American West'' (1995), ''Mysteries of Egypt'' (1998), ''Olympic Glory'' (1999), ''The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd'' (2000), ''The Work and the Glory'' (2004), and ''The Work and the Glory: American Zion'' (2005).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for The Church of Jesus Christ. </del>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Under his leadership</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ten new </del>series <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were launched in fall 2011</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of ''Granite Flats''. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''Granite Flats''. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. ''Granite Flats'' is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them. After the abrupt cancellation of the show, Swofford was involved with a spin-off </ins>series <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">called ''Web of Spies,'' but that too was dropped by BYUtv</ins>. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called ''The District'', was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called ''The District'', was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Swofford is </del>also <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the executive producer of </del>the BYUtv series ''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Song that Changed My Life''. Each episode features a popular singer or band as they describe a song that means the most to them</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He also was the executive producer of the Christmas film, </del>''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Silent Night</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">', written by Christian Vuissa. In 2013 both the series and the film were accepted into the LDS Film Festival</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011. He </ins>also <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">directed </ins>the BYUtv series ''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Extinct</ins>.'' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s professional family friendly programming</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is director </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">BYUtv’s family drama television </del>series<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Granite Flats</del>''. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very large fan following</del>. ''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Granite Flats</del>'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is about a small town near a military base in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960s. The show focuses especially on a trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was also the executive producer </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the BYUtv </ins>series ''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Song that Changed My Life</ins>''. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Each episode features a popular singer or band as they describe </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">song that means the most to them</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He also was the executive producer of the Christmas film, </ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Silent Night</ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, written by Christian Vuissa. In 2013 both </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">series </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the film were accepted into the LDS Film Festival</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He also directed the BYUtv series ''Extinct</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Swofford earned a bachelor’s degree in motion picture and TV from Brigham Young University in 1979</ins>. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.</del></div></td><td colspan="2">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div></td></tr> </table> Phicken https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&diff=51162&oldid=prev Phicken at 02:23, 16 October 2019 2019-10-16T02:23:56Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:23, 16 October 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Scott_Swofford.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Scott Swofford Mormon film and TV producer|left]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Scott_Swofford.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Scott Swofford Mormon film and TV producer|left]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He is the BYU ([[Brigham Young University]]) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He has shot film in 55 different countries</ins>. He is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">also </ins>the BYU ([[Brigham Young University]]) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford earned a bachelor’s degree in motion picture and TV from Brigham Young University in 1979. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford earned a bachelor’s degree in motion picture and TV from Brigham Young University in 1979. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes Seasons of the Heart (1993), Rigoletto (1993), The Great American West (1995), Mysteries of Egypt (1998), Olympic Glory (1999), The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd (2000), The Work and the Glory (2004), and The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His filmography includes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Seasons of the Heart<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(1993), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Rigoletto<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(1993), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The Great American West<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(1995), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Mysteries of Egypt<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(1998), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Olympic Glory<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(1999), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(2000), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The Work and the Glory<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(2004), and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The Work and the Glory: American Zion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>(2005).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for The Church of Jesus Christ. He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of Granite Flats. Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for The Church of Jesus Christ. He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Granite Flats<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>. Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called The District, was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The District<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>, was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford is also the executive producer of the BYUtv series The Song that Changed My Life. Each episode features a popular singer or band as they describe a song that means the most to them. He also was the executive producer of the Christmas film, Silent Night, written by Christian Vuissa. In 2013 both the series and the film were accepted into the LDS Film Festival.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford is also the executive producer of the BYUtv series <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The Song that Changed My Life<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>. Each episode features a popular singer or band as they describe a song that means the most to them. He also was the executive producer of the Christmas film, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Silent Night<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>, written by Christian Vuissa. In 2013 both the series and the film were accepted into the LDS Film Festival.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, Granite Flats. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. Granite Flats is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Granite Flats<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Granite Flats<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a </ins>trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who </ins>unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He also directed the BYUtv series ''Extinct.''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div></td></tr> </table> Phicken https://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Swofford:Mormon_Producer&diff=33188&oldid=prev Gboyd: Created page with "left '''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He is the BYU ([[Brigham ..." 2014-06-05T20:15:16Z <p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/File:Scott_Swofford.jpg" title="File:Scott Swofford.jpg">350px|thumb|alt=Scott Swofford Mormon film and TV producer|left</a> &#039;&#039;&#039;Scott Swofford&#039;&#039;&#039; is an American film and IMAX producer. He is the BYU ([[Brigham ...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:Scott_Swofford.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Scott Swofford Mormon film and TV producer|left]]<br /> '''Scott Swofford''' is an American film and IMAX producer. He is the BYU ([[Brigham Young University]]) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. <br /> <br /> Swofford earned a bachelor’s degree in motion picture and TV from Brigham Young University in 1979. <br /> <br /> His filmography includes Seasons of the Heart (1993), Rigoletto (1993), The Great American West (1995), Mysteries of Egypt (1998), Olympic Glory (1999), The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd (2000), The Work and the Glory (2004), and The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005).<br /> <br /> He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for The Church of Jesus Christ. He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of Granite Flats. Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011.<br /> <br /> Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called The District, was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv.<br /> <br /> Swofford is also the executive producer of the BYUtv series The Song that Changed My Life. Each episode features a popular singer or band as they describe a song that means the most to them. He also was the executive producer of the Christmas film, Silent Night, written by Christian Vuissa. In 2013 both the series and the film were accepted into the LDS Film Festival.<br /> <br /> Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, Granite Flats. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. Granite Flats is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them.<br /> <br /> In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.<br /> [[Category:Famous Mormons]]</div> Gboyd