The Los Angeles Times offers an in-depth interview with so-called "father of Mormon cinema" Richard Dutcher. The article probes the crisis of faith that led Ducher to leave the LDS Church. Ducher says it was making his films, which include, God's Army and Brigham City, that helped him develop spiritually to the point of questioning his church.

One day in prayer, all by myself, I asked myself the question: What if it's all not true?

It was an earth-shaking moment of spiritual terror, such a profound experience. It was such a sense of loss. I felt my faith leaving me and never coming back."

While Dutcher holds little bitterness for his former faith, the Mormon film genre he founded is another story:

At the beginning, I was proud to say, 'Yeah, I'm a Mormon filmmaker' because then, I was defining what a Mormon filmmaker was.

It quickly got completely out of my control. Now, no one wants to call themselves a Mormon filmmaker because you're associating yourself with a genre that's fallen into disrepute. It's like having porn on your résumé.