A searing indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.

The Mormon Proposition

Narrated by Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award® winning screenwriter of Milk.

Reed Cowan  – Director , Producer, Writer

Reed Cowan is an Emmy® award winning journalist. His first full-length feature film was “The other side of the lens”, a look at his project to build schools in Kenya for AIDS orphans.

8: The Mormon Proposition is Cowan’s second full-length feature documentary, getting international media attention long before completion after Cowan’s explosive interview with former Mormon Bishop and Utah Senator D. Chris Buttars, who likened gay people to radical Muslim terrorists.

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USA: 8: The Mormon Proposition

Quotes

“Sparks an informed dialogue.” – VARIETY

“Amazing! Will knock your socks off… could be the movie of the year.” – THE HUFFINGTON POST

“One of the buzzier documentaries to debut at this year’s Sundance Film Fest.” – THE WASHINGTON POST

“POWERFUL STUFF!” – SALT LAKE, THE MAGAZINE FOR UTAH

“A vital, important cry for an open dialogue.” – THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

“The true achievement of this film is the way it humanises the consequences of the matter at hand.” – SCREEN CRAVE

“Insightful and sometimes shocking.” – SBCC FILM REVIEWS

“They are careful not to succumb to emotional rant but choose instead well-researched data and a range of interviews with politicians, historians, and those most affected by the outcome. . . Cowan and Greenstreet’s film tellingly reminds us that, if any common ground can ever be found, it must be based on truth and transparency.” – JOHN COOPER, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

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