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Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Latter Day Lives podcast.

My name is Sean Rappier.

I'm your host for the show, and we have got such a fascinating, fascinating show for you this week.

Our guest is Mr. Kells Goodman.

Kells is the director and producer of the series Hidden in the Heartland, which investigates

the Book of Mormon here in the U.S. He is also one of the owners of the series Hidden in the Heartland, which investigates the Book

of Mormon here in the U.S. He is also one of the owners of the LDS Film Festival. We'll talk about

all of this as well as his time working on Hollywood movies. And in the My Latter-day Life section,

I'll tell you about a friend who I bumped into this week and an amazing experience we had a few years back with the Book of Mormon.

So sit back, relax, and here's the show.

All right, friends, today on the Latter Day Lives conversation, we are very fortunate to have an incredible filmmaker with us. Mr. Kells Goodman. Kells,

welcome to the show. Thank you, Sean. It's great to be here. Oh, we're so glad to have you. Kells,

we have a lot to talk about today. Kells is a fixture in the Utah film community. In fact,

I'm sort of on the outside of the film community. I know a lot of actors,

a lot of directors, and everyone I meet knows you, Gels. You've been doing film for a long time.

Make it sound like I'm a lamp or something. So, just kidding. No, you're definitely a fixture in a

good way in the Utah film community. So tell us a little bit about yourself. Like,

where did you grow up? Well, I was born in Richmond, Virginia. My dad was, he grew up in Washington,

D.C. And so we ended up in Virginia for about the first 10 years of my life. And then we moved

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