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The Sun Swing Studies serve as an academic resource to the Sun Swing Media Company. It facilitiates discussion in entertainment media production principles and practices. This site defends and maintains these truths to allow for uniform approach in the company's production processes and final product.

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"Lest I Make My Brother To Offend"

Written by Brent Leavitt

As Latter-day Saints, one of many blessings accompanying us is the ability to discern good from evil. One of the great benefits of increased discipleship is a deepened understanding of the workings of the priceless gift of the Holy Ghost. As we grow older, white and black swirl together into a gray indiscernible to the natural eye. Hopefully, we will always have the Spirit with us to clearly know black from white and right from wrong.
   

A Sampling of Institutional LDS Cinema: "On the Way Home" and "The Mountain of the Lord"

Written by Brent Leavitt

The Mormon cinema movement of 1999 was a false façade of sorts enshrouded with ambiguity and uncertainty. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been producing and distributing films since the birth of the cinema itself. If there was some aspect of the cinema that was uniquely new about this theatrical product, it was the most under looked element of the equation, the marketing of Mormon cinema.