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Sam Cardon is an Emmy Award winning composer whose credits include 15 large-format films:"Titans Of The Ice Age", "Mummies", "Mystic India", Texas, The Big Picture, "Forces Of Nature", Lewis and Clark,The Legendary Journeys, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, Mysteries of Egypt, Olympic Glory, Whales, Building the Dream at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California; Treasure of the Gods at Zion National Park, Utah and The Secret of San Francisco at Pier 39.
In addition, he has written or co-written the themes for National Geographic Explorer, ABC Sunday Night at the Movies, Good Morning America, and provided three hours of original music for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, and music for the 2002 Winter Olympic game Closing Ceremonies at Salt Lake City. He has also written music for over 40 independent films: "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend", "Highway To Dhampus", "The Velveteen Rabbit", "LIttle Secrets", "Beau Jest", "The Work And The Glory", "American Zion", "A House Divided", "Return To Secret Garden", "The Assignment", "Davie And Golimyr", "The Wild Stallion", documentaries" "Fires Of Faith", "American Prophet", "The Trail Of Hope", "America's First Freedom", video games: "World Of Warcraft", "Jet Moto" and "Twisted Metal".
Cardon grew up in Farmington, New Mexico, and received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1993. He received the "Distinguished Honored Alumnus" award from Brigham Young University in 2006. He also received the Governor's Mansion Artist Award from Governor and First Lady Michael and Jacalyn Leavitt from the State Of Utah in 2003.
He serves on the Board Of Trustees of Snow College, on the Community Relations Board of Utah Valley University and on the College of Fine Arts And Communications Board of Brigham Young University.
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In addition, he has written or co-written the themes for National Geographic Explorer, ABC Sunday Night at the Movies, Good Morning America, and provided three hours of original music for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, and music for the 2002 Winter Olympic game Closing Ceremonies at Salt Lake City. He has also written music for over 40 independent films: "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend", "Highway To Dhampus", "The Velveteen Rabbit", "LIttle Secrets", "Beau Jest", "The Work And The Glory", "American Zion", "A House Divided", "Return To Secret Garden", "The Assignment", "Davie And Golimyr", "The Wild Stallion", documentaries" "Fires Of Faith", "American Prophet", "The Trail Of Hope", "America's First Freedom", video games: "World Of Warcraft", "Jet Moto" and "Twisted Metal".
Cardon grew up in Farmington, New Mexico, and received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1993. He received the "Distinguished Honored Alumnus" award from Brigham Young University in 2006. He also received the Governor's Mansion Artist Award from Governor and First Lady Michael and Jacalyn Leavitt from the State Of Utah in 2003.
He serves on the Board Of Trustees of Snow College, on the Community Relations Board of Utah Valley University and on the College of Fine Arts And Communications Board of Brigham Young University.
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Highway to Dhampus (2014)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rachel Hurd-Wood, Gunner Wright, Raj Ballav Koirala, Sophie McShera, Vinzenz Kiefer
Rating74%
Film Tagline: We look at the sky, but we walk on the ground.
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010)
, 1h24Directed by Daryn Tufts
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Alyssa Milano, Beau Bridges, Michael Landes, Christopher Gorham, Carol Kane, Tom Lenk
Rating57%
Ethan (Christopher Gorham) is a struggling writer who rushes to his girlfriend’s house only to be told by her roommate that she has left for the airport. There and moments later, they are reunited and embrace. It is revealed to be an excerpt from Ethan’s latest written work. His agent (Carol Kane), upon finishing the novel, informs him that it is “unrealistic” and will not be published.
Passage to Zarahemla (2007)
, 1h30Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about religion
Actors Summer Naomi Smart
Rating53%
The story begins with its focus on a group of hunters illegally hunting game out in the woods. Originally thought to be dead, the hunter's target springs back to life and flees into the heavy brush and trees. Determined not to let the game suffer, one of the hunters decides to pursue the elk in its fleet. After some amount of exploration he finds his elk...hanging over a branch, shot by an arrow. Hearing noises he turns around to an arrow shot at him and screams.
, 1h40Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Sam Hennings, Brenda Strong, Eric Johnson, Brighton Hertford, Jonathan Scarfe, Michael Bowen
Rating61%
Mystic India (2005)
, 40minutesGenres Drama, Thriller, Documentary
Actors Peter O'Toole
Rating74%
Nilkanth walked 12,000 kilometers around the Indian subcontinent over a span of 7 years. His journey took him through the "dense jungles, fertile plains, majestic mountains, mighty rivers, and peaceful coastlines" of India. This journey included the exploration of “India’s silent spirituality” and its appropriation as a "mystic land of meditation, contemplation and enlightenment."
The Work and the Glory (2004)
, 1h58Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Sam Hennings, Brenda Strong, Eric Johnson, Tiffany Dupont, Colin Ford, Jonathan Scarfe
Rating65%
Early on in the film, the family's association with Martin Harris, a prominent figure of the early Latter Day Saint movement, is established. Carefully woven throughout the film are events which tie into actual history of the church, such as Harris' mortgage of his farm for the publication of the Book of Mormon. In the film, Harris recommends the Smith boys as hired help for the Steeds.
Little Secrets (2001)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Musical films
Actors Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Angarano, David Gallagher, Vivica A. Fox, Danielle Chuchran, Caitlin Meyer
Rating63%
Emily Lindstrom (Evan Rachel Wood), an aspiring 14-year-old violinist, spends her summer practicing for an audition to get into the InterMountain Youth Symphony Orchestra in Salt Lake City, Utah, while her two best friends, Laurel and Jenny, go off to camp. She also runs a secret-keeping business, in which other children give her fifty cents to tell her a secret, which she promises to keep; this is a talent that she is normally very good at. Meanwhile, her parents are expecting another child and seem to care more about it than her.
, 40minutesDirected by George Butler
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Michael Gambon, Kevin Spacey, Ciarán Hinds, Denis Lill, Patrick Malahide, Bob Sherman
Rating76%
In 1914, Shackleton set out to walk across the whole of Antarctica. While the South Pole had already been discovered, people had yet to make the cross-continent trek on foot. Before making landfall, however, his ship became trapped in the ice-flow of the Weddell Sea where he and his crew stayed for over 400 days.
Friendship's Field (1995)
, 1h24Directed by Bruce Neibaur
Genres Drama
Actors Kate Maberly, Melissa Moore
Rating69%
On Our Own (1988)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Sam Hennings, Stepfanie Kramer
Rating64%
The film starts with Peggy Williams's mother talking to her on the phone asking her to start from the beginning of the story. An ambulance rushes to the hospital with the mother of four children. It then goes by the children's apartment to tell them their mother passed away. the four children, Mitch, Kate, Travis, and Lori go to City Hall with their neighbor, Mrs. Forsythe. She tells the judge they have no family and that she is unable to take them in. Mitch tells the judge and Mr. Arnold that they have an Uncle Jack, but they don't believe Mitch and the Judge decides to put them in a foster home until they get adopted. In the foster home a grumpy nurse yells at Travis and Lori for jumping on a bed when Mr. Arnold comes in and tells them that Lori is going to be adopted. Mitch is angry that he didn't tell them they would be split up at makes a plan to run away. They escape to their old home where Mitch collects all the money he can find, (9 dollars), and his Uncle Jack's address, thinking Jack will know where their father is. They also manage to get their dog back. They then get into their mother's old car and drive away, with neighbors spotting them.