Red Brick Reviews: LDS Film Festival

Ok, so at the beginning of the semester, one of my teachers gave us a list of movie recommendations. On this list was one called Unicorn City. The reason for the recommendation: he worked on it (though I can't remember how exactly). So, I made a mental note to look for it whenever it got released. Then, earlier this week, one of my friends invited me to go to the LDS Film Fest in Orem. There's a LDS Film Festival?!? Thats sweet. I was like "I'm free Friday. What's playing?". So he read off the movies and Unicorn City was one of them. Unicorn City? Nice, I remembered that looking funny. So I said 'Let's do this!' (I didn't actually say that. I just had him buy me a ticket.)

So earlier today (well, technically yesterday, but who really cares?) some friends and I headed over to the SCERA Theater to watch U.C. When I got there I saw a sign that said "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed poster signing." They made a second Saints and Soldiers? Nice. And that's a sweet poster. I want one. I looked at my watch; movie starts in 10 minutes. Look at the line; there's no way I'm going to make it through this line before the movie starts. So it came down crucial decision: watch the movie from the very beginning and not miss a thing -or- get a poster signed by the cast and crew and miss the first 20 minutes of U.C.? I opted for the latter and ended up with these:

and this:

Yea, that's David Nibley and Corbin Allred, two popular Mormon actors. Needless to say I was pretty stoked. As giddy as a school girl as some would say. I did not even know this was going to be happening. I wish I would have brought my own camera. So after waiting in line for 20 minutes, I finally got my poster and into the theater to watch Unicorn City. (More on that later.) Afterwards, there was a short Q&A with the filmmakers, followed by a poster signing. I got a poster signed by everyone and pics signed by Jaclyn Hales (who played Marsha) and Clint Vanderlinden (who was Rhubarb.) I also got a signed poster for The Last Eagle Scout, even though I knew nothing about it. Then I went home. It was a blast.