900: Tyler Measom - Documentary Filmmaker Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Join us for this lively interview with Tyler Measom to discuss his life as an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Tyler's films include Sons of Perditionand An Honest Liar, along with a film currently in production about the history of MTV. A comprehensive list of Tyler's works may be found at his IMDb.

Tyler shares with us his experience growing up as a Mormon including serving a mission—an experience he credits with influencing his style and purpose as a filmmaker by teaching him how to deeply empathize with people. Tyler also shares how he first became involved in the film industry and used his entrepreneurial skills to create works that have won awards at numerous film festivals. Later we learn that Tyler decided to leave the LDS Church in protest during the early days of the Church's efforts to prevent the passage of same-sex marriage in the United States.

This interview contains excellent advice to aspiring artists of all kinds on how to successfully channel your passion into successful outcomes.

Tyler's upcoming film is about Mark Hofmann—a horrifying and seductive tale of the most prolific and accomplished forger in modern history. Information about this film and how you can donate to this project may be found at https://www.forgerfilm.com.

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0:57.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast.
1:00.0	I'm your host John Dillin.
1:02.0	It is March 27th, 2018.
1:05.0	And we are very excited for today's interview.
1:09.0	We are going to be interviewing successful well-known documentary award-winning documentary filmmaker, Tyler Musum.
1:19.0	So, Tyler has been on Warmest Stories at least once before.
1:23.0	Way, way, many years ago, Tyler released what I think of his first major documentary film,
1:32.0	which was called Suns of Prediction, which featured the lost voice of the FLDS church down in the creek.
1:40.0	And so, some of you will know Tyler Musum from that interview, those of you who are real warmest stories geeks.
1:47.0	Tyler followed up that movie with another award-winning movie called An Honest Slayer, which is available on Netflix.
1:55.0	It's about the amazing Randy, this incredibly brilliant sort of magician who became a debunker of charlatans, you know, faith healers, etc. in the 80s.
2:08.0	It's an amazing film. And then, Tyler also won, I think, an Emmy for his work on a documentary called Behyve Spirits.
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