Movies Released by Purdie Distribution

Director: Ken Spurgeon

New Albany Films

Starring: Bailey Chase, Dodie Brown, Buck Taylor, Mary Beth McDonough and Barry Corbin

Sod & Stubble tells the story of Henry and Rosa Ise. In May 1873, Henry Ise and 17-year-old Rosa Haag were united in marriage before moving to their new homestead in Osborne County, Kansas.

Director: Scott Briggs

INTO THE BLACK PRODUCTIONS

The documentary of the 1990 Dude fire in Arizona that kills 6 prisoner wildfire firefighters and of the firefighter survivors desperate fight to stay alive.

Director: Garrett Batty

THREE COIN PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Kameron Krebs, Jeff Dickamore, Aurora Florence, Daz Crawford, & Kaulin Krebs

After the death of his father, a fighter becomes an apprentice to a mysterious Carpenter.

Director: Garrett Batty

THREE COIN PRODUCTIONS

Starring: John Michael Finely, Cameron Arnett, Kirby Heyborne, Charlotte Hemmings, Jasen Wade, Tanner Gillman, Joel Bishop & Julie Slack

A stranger receives mysterious callings compelling him to search for a boy lost in an abandoned mine.

Director: Marc Marriott

SALARYMAN FILM

Starring: Arata Iura, Robin Weigert, Goya Robles, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Kunimura, & Scout Smith

A Japanese businessman goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch.

Director: Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt

DESERT FLOWER FILMPRODUKTION

Starring: Litlhohonolofatso Litlhakayane, Ava Skuratowski, Kumkani Pilonti, Nissi Bodibe, Vutihari Sibisi, Andrea Sawatzki, & 

Kenneth Nkosi

Thabo (11) wants to become a private detective. If only his home, the small African village, was not the most peaceful Savannah paradise. But things take a sudden turn when a rhino is murdered in the safari park for its horn.

Director: Jeremy Warner

TEAM SQUAD MEDIA

Starring: Mallory Everton, Colin Mochrie, Jason Gray, Billy Mann, Jeff Bryan Davis, Joe Bereta, GloZell Green, Matt Meese, Tori Pence & Trey Warner

After the death of their boss, Beatrix, Cain and Harold are left destitute living in an abandoned grocery store. Beatrix is determined that they will fight on their own and take over the world by any means necessary.

Director: Anshuvijay Rode

FIRST GEN FILMS

Starring: Jasen Wade, Talitha Hanks, Whitney Palmer, Damarr Jones & Ariana Bagley.

An ex-couple are both set to inherit a lot of money if they can spend the week together in a remote cabin getaway.

Director: Kevin Sorbo

ETO FILMS

Starring: Kevin Sorbo, John Ratzenberger, Louis Gossett Jr, Tyler Mane, & Sam Sorbo

Two con men try to convince a group of widows to invest in worthless oil wells during the Great Depression.

Directors: Stephen Meek | Jeremy Warner

JK STUDIOS

Starring, Natalie Madsen, Matt Meese, Whitney Call, Stephen Meek, Adam Berg, Stacey Harkey, Mallory Everton, James Perry, Jeremy Warner & Jason Gray

A crazy group of pioneers brave the harsh elements and numerous mishaps to travel thousands of miles out west to find a place to call home.

Director: Tom Laughlin

THREE ORCHARD PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Sarah Hinze

Author, Speaker and Filmmaker Sarah Hinze compiled dozens of uplifting and remarkable accounts of parents and families who have had the opportunity to meet the souls of their sons and daughters before they were born. These souls share that we are all eternal spirits who lived in a realm of light and beauty before coming to earth.

Directors: Adam Montierth | Donovan Montierth

BROTHERS INK PRODUCTIONS

Starring Robert Mac

The Grand Prize Winner of Comedy Central's "Laugh Riot" and seen on Last Comic Standing and Dry Bar Comedy -- Robert Mac's 3rd comedy special has him going back - in Robert Mac: Mac to School.

Directors: Nathan Florence | Matt Black

Starring: Trevor Southey

The story of Trevor Southey, a gay Mormon artist from British Rhodesia who dreamed of becoming a modern-day Michelangelo for the Mormon Church.

Director: Alicia Oberle Farmer

ZEPSTONE MEDIA

Starring: Kayli Brummer, Melinda Yeaman, JD Allen, James Morris, & Kim Stone.

A high school boy must follow in his shaman grandfather's footsteps to become the beacon of light he was meant to be.

Director: Isaac Halasima

SIDEWINDER FILMS

Starring: Jason Momoa, Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Johnny Wiessmuller, Kelly Slater, & Laird Hamilton

Five-time Olympic medalist and Native Hawaiian Duke Paoa Kahanamoku shattered records and brought surfing to the world while overcoming a lifetime of personal challenges.

Director: Savannah Ostler

S & S PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Monica Moore Smith, Alison Arngrim, James Gaisford, Savannah Ostler & Tanner Gillman

The movie stars Sam, 18, an aspiring musician that just lost her older sister Amber. During the difficult grieving process, Sam finds comfort in singing and songwriting - fulfilling the dreams that Amber would now never be able to pursue. Along with Amber's band, Sam moves to Nashville to pursue Amber's dream of making a career in the music industry. Upon arrival, they sign with a music manager who immediately provides them with success, but at a price. As the taste of fame draws near, tensions begin to rise within the band. Will the industry tear them apart and change forever who they are? Even in Dreams is an inspiring, feel good, musically driven family film.

Director: Maclain Nelson | Stephen Shimek

ESCAPOLOGY

Starring: Paris Warner, Bart Johnson, Clare Niederpruem, Kaley McCormack, & Tanner Gillman

When Bree Carrington gets engaged while at BYU Hawaii, her loving but over-the-top mom goes all out to create the wedding of the century. But both mother and daughter must overcome the pressure of perfection when this happily ever after story doesn't go quite as expected.

Director: Adam White

PITCH WHITE ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: Summer Bellessa, Kevan Moezzi, Jon Heder, Brooke White, Pat Finn, & Barry Corbin

A successful business woman takes her boyfriend home for Thanksgiving only to find her family is scheming to reunite her with her lost love.

Director: Mark Goodman

REDBRICK FILMWORKS

Starring: Jason Gaignard, Mason Mac, Scott Christopher, Paul Wuthrich, & Joel Bishop

For nearly 200 years, skeptics and critics have been trying to explain away what many Book of Mormon witnesses stated-that they had seen angels and hefted golden metal plates containing ancient inscriptions.

Director: Bryce Clark

FROST ROAD ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: Joel Bishop, Monica Moore Smith, Tanya Price, Katie Preston, & Karla Hernandez

Three short films inspired by true stories from the LDS mission field.

Director: Rob Gardner

SOMETIME PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Casey Elliott, Tyler Hardwick, Dallyn Vail Bayles, Suzanne Disparte, & Emily Moffat

Embrace the hope of Easter and experience the power of the last week of Christ's mortal ministry as told through the internationally acclaimed musical event, Lamb of God. This unique concert film brings award winning composer Rob Gardner's music to the big screen for the first time as audiences are able to see a new orchestration and new soloists perform a work that has been compared to Handel's Messiah and Mozart's Requiem. Witness Lamb of God as never before seen.

Director: Christy Summerhays

SHINING STAR ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: Michael McLean, Christy Summerhays, Roger Dunbar, Gili Getz, Dave Martin, Jeff McLean, Lynne McLean, & Adrien Swenson

Uncle John recounts the story of Christ's birth to Connie Lou through story and song. See Connie Lou discover what the world has forgotten about Christmas, ultimately opening her heart to the joy of this special season.

Director: Tshoper Kabambi

BIMPA PRODUCTION

Starring: Brandon Ray Olive, Bavon Diana Landa, Moyindo Mpongo, Gatsby Kabakele, Jospin Kapata, Kadhaffi Mbuyamba & Farial Denewade

A Congolese man runs from a terrible accident and finds himself at a revolutionary camp, where he is told that he has a great destiny. Now, he must face his fears and his shame, but also his magnificent possibilities.

Director: Garrett Batty

THREE COIN PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Jasen Wade, Corbin Allred, Larry Bagby, Adam Johnson, Casey Elliott, Shawn Stevens, Jake Van Wagoner, Brandon Ray Olive & Travis Farris

Winter 1839. LIBERTY, MISSOURI. Local jailer, Samuel Tillery (Jasen Wade) is tasked with watching Missouri's most wanted men as they await their upcoming hearing. Caught between the local Missourians' increased drive to remove the prisoners, and the prisoners' desperate efforts to survive, Tillery is pushed beyond what any lawman can endure. Based on actual recorded accounts, OUT OF LIBERTY is an intense, evocative western, with an outcome you have to see to believe.

Director: T.C. Christensen

REMEMBER FILMS

Starring: David McConnell, Charley Boon, Cassidy Hubert, Scarlett Hazen, & Paul Wuthrich

When Willard and Rebecca Bean are called on a mission to a town that's hostile towards them, they must choose whether to fight for their right to live there or love their hostile neighbors.

Director: Alan Peterson

EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: Austin R Grant, Joel Bishop, Stefania Barr, Clint Pulver, Grace Ayre, & Ryan Mitchell Brown

Trek follows a young Mormon teenager named Tom and his friends on their handcart journey. Along the way they try to smuggle in unsanctioned food, battle sibling rivalry, encounter a "special ops" Young Men's leader, match wits with a twinkie-loving skunk, and ponder doctrinal brain teasers like, "Do general Authorities go to PG-13 movies?" But, when they encounter unexpected trouble, their faith is tested much like their pioneer ancestors

Director: Jake Van Wagoner

GOOD GUYS PRODUCTIONS

Starring: MaClain Nelson, Jake Van Wagoner, Clare Niederpruen, Adam Johnson, & Brad Johnson

Two estranged brothers try to reconnect at Christmas but there's something that one of them can't get past...the other think's he's a time traveler.

Director: Mitch Davis

KEB ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: Michael Cassidy, Sarah Lancaster, Connor Corum, Pluto, & Eliza De Azevedo Brown

A young father takes his nine-year-old son, the family dog, and two of his son's friends backpacking in the mountains of Colorado only for all five of them to be struck by lightning.

Director: Christopher Gorham

GO FILMS

Starring: Christopher Gorham, Felicia Day, Elizabeth Tulloch, Paula Marshall, Sabastian Roche, Jack McBrayer, & Mallory Everton

Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael's series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and a merman. But no one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist--and Simon would like to keep it that way.

Director: T.C. Christensen

REMEMBER FILMS

Starring: Jasen Wade, Heather Beers, Tatum Chiniquy, Brennin Williams, & Yvonne D Bennett

A teenage girl copes with her diagnosis of terminal juvenile Batten Disease.

Director: Cameron Sawyer

VIDANGEL STUDIOS

Starring: Eddie Perino, Andrew Lewis Caldwell, Stephanie Drapeau, Casey Elliot, Laird Macintosh, Seth Meriwether, Drue Knapp, & Morgan Lund

An irresponsible Utah student body president faces impeachment as he attempts to sweet-talk his way into Yale.

Director: Darran Scott (as J.D. Scott)

McCLAREN HOUSE

Starring: Kevin Sorbo, Wade Briggs, Anna McGahan, Aaron Jakubenko, & Denise Roberts

In the lead up to the 1956 Olympic games, a group of missionaries are tasked with helping the fledgling Australian basketball team compete in their first ever Olympics, and in doing so, unite a nation still coming to grips after the war.

Directors: Darrin Fletcher | Chet Thomas

FLETCHET ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: Tim Ballard, Jaron Tree, Dutch Turley, Andrew Bennett, Ricaurte Rivera & Laurie Holden

Former Special Agent Tim Ballard has spent over a decade rescuing children from child sex tourism both domestically and overseas before he leaves, founds his own organization and begins saving the large majority of children that fell out of the purview of the US. This is the story about the lost children and the attempt to investigate and liberate them from around the world. 

Director: Michael Buster

AZEVEDO STUDIOS

Starring: Mason Mac, Jacob Buster, Anna Daines, Monica Moore Smith, & Bailee Michelle Johnson

A group of siblings comes to earth to experience trials crucial to their eternal progression and learn the true meaning of their existence.

Director: Maclain Nelson

MAIN DOG PRODUCTIONS

Starring Paris Warner, Lisa Valentine Clark, Hailey Smith, Clare Niederpruem, & Adam Johnson

After losing her father to cancer, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step cousin at a summer camp for Latter-day Saint (Mormon) girls.

Director: Garrett Batty

THREE COIN PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Henry Adofo, Michael Attram, Alphonse Menyo, Phillip Adekunle Michael, Bright Dodoo Great Ejiro, Bill Myers & Clement Amegayie

A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.

Director: Blair Treu

INTELLECTUAL RESERVE

Starring: Jermaine Sullivan, Ken Nuimatalolo, Carolina Munoz Marin, Bishnu Adhi, Gail Halvorsen, Dawn Armstrong, & Jenna Kim Jones

Meet the Mormons examines the very diverse lives of six devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Filmed on location and across the globe, Meet the Mormons takes viewers on a journey into the day-to-day realities of individuals living in the U.S., Costa Rica, Nepal and beyond. From their individual passions to their daily struggles, each story paints a picture as rich and unique as the next while challenging the stereotypes that surround the Mormon faith.

Director: Ryan Little

GO FILMS

Starring: Adam Gregory, Timothy S. Shoemaker, Michael Todd Behrens, Matt Meese, Joel Bishop, 

K. Danor Gerald, Andrew Troy & Bart Johnson

The German war machine is in retreat. Two American M 18 tank destroyers are sent to root out a die hard group of Nazis holed up in the Harz Mountains.

Director: Bruce Dellis

BROTHERS INK PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Ricky Schroder, Rick Hoffman, Jon Gries, Jon Polito, Krista Allen, Tatyana Ali & Bart Johnson

13th Locker is a Thriller Anthology Film similar to classic TV Series like Twilight Zone and Suspense, which feature people who find themselves in dangerous and life-threatening situations. Skip delves into the mysteries of an old creepy locker. His sage supervisor recounts 4 chilling cautionary tales to warn Skip and the stories come into play when Skip faces a life-or-death decision of his own.

Director: Adam White

PITCH WHITE ENTERTAINMENT

Starring: David Lassetter, Dashiell Wolf, Christian Busath, Jake Suazo, Shona Kay & Rick Macy

Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ teach two birdbrained members of the mafia who think the Elders are messengers from "The Boss" with a hidden message on the next big job.

Directors: Devin McGinn | Steve Berg

DEEPSTUDIOS

Starring: Jon Gries, Kyle Davis, Erin Cahill, Devin McGinn, Matt Rocheleau, & Steven Berg

A scientific research team investigates and documents the supernatural phenomena surrounding the disappearance of a cattle ranchers 10 year old son. Inspired by true events that shocked the paranormal community around the world.

Director: Garrett Batty

THREE COIN PRODUCTIONS

Starring: Corbin Allred, MacClain Nelson, Nikita Bogolyubov, Alex Veadov, & Bart Johnson.

This riveting drama tells the true story of two young American Mormon missionaries held captive and brutalized for a week in a remote part of Russia.

Director: Ryan Little

GO FILMS

Starring: Lincoln Hoppe, Rick Macy, Corbin Allred, Jasen Wade, & Nichelle Aiden

Two months after the Allied forces land in Normandy during WWII, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team sets out for Provence with the aim to protect the Allied troops en route to Berlin.

Director: Bryan Lefler

DEEPSTUDIOS

Starring: Devin McGinn, Jon Gries, Jaclyn Hales, Matt Mattson, Clint Vanderlinden, & Steve Berg

Voss entices local gamers to create a Utopian society in an attempt to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss's true love.

Director: Christian Vuissa

MIRROR FILMS

Starring: Dustin Harding, Dalton Blaine, Lindsay Farr & Brandon Luke Bringhurst

Step into nineteenth-century New England and experience the story of one of the most influential men in religious history. The story that chronicles the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.