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A wonderful thing about being a professor is you are essentially forced to continue your artistic practice to get tenure, which is exactly the pressure I need to focus. I have wanted to direct a documentary on tithing in the Mormon church for a number of years, and I was recently empowered to begin through a research grant from BSU's Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship. Below is the proposal I submitted which summarizes the project and outlines my preproduction goals for the upcoming summer.
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 I made this documentary in 2016, but I never shared it publicly. Originally it was due to the festival circuit, but then my reasons became more hazy. Some amalgamation of "this is too private" and "this might piss people off" and "I am a better filmmaker now and I want to make edits" and "I made it so long ago that it now feels irrelevant." I decided to ignore myself and just throw it to the wolves. It got 439 views in the first two days, so it seems the timing was right.
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