Ali Barr is an award-winning LDS director and producer. According to her introduction on LinkedIn, she got her start in film when her children became actors and they began working on films together. She has received many awards for her films. For example, her film...
Studio C, a sketch comedy group dedicated to making funny, family-friendly videos, just posted a new video on May 26th, 2017, and it’s made it onto YouTube’s list of “trending” videos. The video is called “Fairy Godmother Gifts”—a...
Robert Atkins is an American cartoonist who also happens to be a Mormon (LDS). In an interview with Michelle Garrett Bulsiewicz from the Deseret News, he expressed how his faith has impacted his career: “I rely on the Lord for major decisions as far as what...
BYU Animation has done well over the years. Many of the short films they have produced have been nominated for student Emmys (College Television Awards) in the past, and BYU Animation students often go on to work for big animation companies like Disney and Pixar. Most...
According to a post on Lindsey Stirling’s Instagram, she has always wanted to compose music for a video game, and now she finally has for a video game called RiME! The composition she wrote for it is called “Forgotten City.” The video...
Ashley Gardner is a Mormon mother of quadruplets (two sets of identical twins) from Orem, Utah. On January 3rd, 2017, she uploaded a video on YouTube of her hiding in the pantry to have a few seconds of alone time and a treat to get through the rest of the night. She...
16-year-old Lauryn Judd from Draper, Utah was a contestant on The Voice 2017. She chose to sing a unique, acoustic version of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” for her blind audition and got three out of four chairs to turn around for her. She chose to be on...
“It’s Gonna Be Okay” was just uploaded today on The Piano Guys’ YouTube page. It features Sir Cliff Richard, a hugely successful pop singer in the UK. Their video got over 7 thousand views in the first fifteen minutes and the view count is...
According to Wikipedia, Jenny Oaks Baker is a “Grammy Nominated American violinist” who began playing the violin at the age of four and began playing orchestra solos when she was eight. She has won many awards throughout her career, including two Pearl...
Lisa Valentine Clark is a Mormon actress who is probably most famous for her main role in the Chatbooks commercial that went viral on YouTube because of how humorously it captured what it’s like to be a stay at home mom. In the video, she plays a very humorous...
Random Acts just posted a new video today (Wednesday, May 24th, 2017) where one of their cast members prank calls some of the best sales reps at Clearlink and “tests their patience” by pretending to be incompetent, eccentric, or just out of the loop. The...
Random Acts is a series about “proficient pranksters” who “go undercover to make deserving people’s dreams come true,” according to their YouTube about page. So far they have eighteen episodes on BYUtv and are in the process of making...
Swim Swam News reported that Joel Thatcher, winner of two “record-breaking national championships his freshman season,” will be “leaving the team and swimming for two yeas to serve a Mormon Mission in Cusco, Peru.” The Swim Swam News article...
Lindsey Stirling was interviewed by Billboard’s Soul Sisters Podcast, and the full interview was released on YouTube on May 17th, 2017, the same day as Lindsey’s YouTube Red documentary. During the interview, Lindsey was told that she was the “most...
Noteworthy is a group of acapella singers from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. All nine members of the group are Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) and write inspirational and spiritual music. They won first place at the...
Jason Lyle Black, also known as “The Backwards Piano Man,” is a talented pianist-entertainer who mixes comedy with piano playing in his shows. He appeared on Ellen in 2011 where he captivated the audience with his amazing upside down, crisscrossed, and...
Hanna Eyre’s blind audition on The Voice was posted on YouTube on March 13th, 2017. She chose to sing “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift. She captivated the audience, along with three of the judges, namely Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Gwen Stefani, who...
If you’re not already following James the Mormon on Twitter, then you’re missing out. Not only does he post inspiring messages—he’s also pretty hilarious. For example, on May 17th, 2017, he tweeted something that I’m sure we can all relate...
“What better to do with your time than stand in front of your own billboard and promote yourself?” says the playful violinist Lindsey Stirling. Her YouTube documentary Brave Enough just came out today on YouTube Red. In honor of this momentous occasion,...
Adorable Claire Ryan just made another appearance on Ellen a couple of days ago where she talks about hurting her leg, rescuing a “boy ladybug,” her secret hideaway, and giving away her snowglobes to a children’s hospital. Then she performs...
Brigham Young University recently made a video about the Hey Joe Show, a “multi-platform social media group dedicated to celebrating and exposing Filipino culture to a global audience” according to the Hey Joe Show about page. BYU’s mini-documentary...
Famous LDS dancing violinist and YouTube star Lindsey Stirling just released a brand new trailer for her upcoming film Brave Enough that documents her personal journey throughout the creation of her latest album. In the description beneath the YouTube trailer, Lindsey...
A recent Deseret News article by Morgan Jones sheds some light on why LDS baseball star Bryce Harper makes the “I love you” sign every time he crosses home plate. Below is a summary of that story. (Click here to view the full Deseret News article on their...
Paul Cardall’s Music Paul Layton Cardall, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS or “Mormon”) is an inspirational pianist and composer whose music has sailed to the top of the Billboards on multiple occasions without any...
