BYU Creative Works offers a variety of BYU-made film productions. The following four videos’ excellence earned national recognition:
The Last Good War (1999, 13:28 min., $10.95)
This BYU student film won first place in the drama category of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation College Television Awards, or “College Emmys.” In it two soldiers–one American, one German–share a meager shelter during a winter storm. Tired, cold, and wounded, they huddle around a fire and try to communicate, to understand, and to share one night of humanity amid the depths of war.
A More Perfect Union (1989, 111 min., $19.95)
Filmed on location at various historical sites, this dramatic re-creation depicts the United States’ heated Constitutional debates of the summer of 1787. This film is officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
Immortal Fortress: Inside Chechnya’s Warrior Culture (1999, 56 min., $19.95)
In Russia and the West, many consider Shamil Basayev a terrorist. But in the tiny mountain republic of Chechnya, he is a hero. The award-winning Immortal Fortress takes viewers into Chechnya for a look at one of the world’s most controversial men and attempts to answer the broader question of why Basayev and thousands of other Chechens fight.
Brides on the Homefront (2000, 44 min., $14.95)
Brides on the Homefront explores the lives of three courageous American women who fell in love during the terrifying and unstable years of World War II. Coproduced by BYU students and KBYU-TV producers, the film won a 2001 Rocky Mountain Southwest Emmy Award for original documentary.
info: 1-800-962-8061; www.creativeworks.byu.edu.