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Provoan awaiting fate of his film

Dream Seeker | 7:40 a.m. July 8, 2008

Follow your dreams... They could land you broke, unemployed, and hoping that lady luck might throw you a bone.

cats | 8:19 a.m. July 8, 2008

Go Seth. As a fellow Provoan, I'd love to see a film about growing up in Provo even if it's supposed to be some other fictitious place. I hope you are the next "Napleon Dynamite."

Dream Seeker...response... | 8:44 a.m. July 8, 2008

I'm sure you are loving your life of followed dreams! Keep your sour comments to yourself...when someone is courageous enough to make the effort to follow their dreams, maybe offer a prayer in their behalf instead of knocking them down.

More is accomplished in this life by those with dreams than ANY negative comments can conjure up!

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to dream seeker..... response | 9:04 a.m. July 8, 2008

ditto what you said....kathyn

You gave the beehive a bad name | 10:01 a.m. July 8, 2008

Everything that is wrong with Utah...

teen comedy | 10:15 a.m. July 8, 2008

Just what we need, another quirky teen high school comedy. Seth, I hope that you'll use any success you get from this movie to develop projects that explore aspects of life we rarely see in the movies. You know, more original stories. Best of luck to you.

Anonymous | 10:23 a.m. July 8, 2008

Maybe I'm just too old to get it, but it riles me a bit to see someone who has a background in business and philosophy and filmmaking to be limited in vocabulary to "Holy crap" and "frickin'" as ways to express himself.

But I do think that following your dreams is important and very worth doing.

Anonymous | 12:42 p.m. July 8, 2008

Seth seems pretty stuck on himself to think that his huge face is totally satisfying.

Ed Clinch | 1:23 p.m. July 8, 2008

I hope he is a good guy. Don't sell out to the powers of sleeze!

They come a dime a dozen.

Real quality film is wholesome and true. It doesn't pander or sell itslef short.

Richard Dutcher? Where are you? You blended in with the rest of them. I hope you make it back.

God bless the entertainment industry.

Bill | 1:57 p.m. July 8, 2008

To those who want outstanding and creative filmography from a first effort, I say: "Have you seen Spielberg's first movie, "The Duel"?? It's a 1971 feature film produced by Spielberg when he was 23 years old. It's horrid.

More power to the kid for doing his film about coming of age in Provo. It's what he knows.

Good luck, Seth!

�tienne | 2:22 p.m. July 8, 2008

Shouldn't it be "Provonian" not "Provoan"?

Film Graduate | 2:39 p.m. July 8, 2008

If Seth reads the comments here, I'd just like to encourage him and wish him well. With the events that happened with Richard Dutcher (both his lashing and the lashings at him), Utah is probably the most religiously polar state in the nation - that's okay though. It's very possible that your film is not enjoyed by others, and in fact that it's not only NOT enjoyed, but that people downright hate it! I watched the trailer. I'd bid you in the future to remember to always speak up to your audience from whatever part of humanity they're in. We're all obviously human and I'd advise you to have realistic expectations on yourself and others. If you're LDS - BE LDS! - If you're not then be what you are. If your film flops, take that as a message from your human audience and not one from an invisible, fictitious entity out there that determines whether or not your work has broad appeal. If it flops, try something different in approaching your protagonist and your antagonist. Best of luck!

Film Graduate II | 3:14 p.m. July 8, 2008

I'd just like to add that times in the local, Utah film scene are in need of taking notes from New Zealand. I say that to the LDS, and the non-LDS crowd. I also say that to the business crowd and the artist crowd. New Zealand's economy has gained billions of $'s by producing movies that have won several awards. Business people in Utah REALLY need to wake up to that! There are vast over-generalizations across the board and so much in film is subjective that incredible talents can be unseen. I watched Seth's trailer twice now. I think he has a great sense for relating with many. I hope your film does well. It seems to me like the budget was stretched and that is such a common thing with an independent film like that. Good budgeting and contracting and getting the right talent behind something can make all the difference. The industry is a double edged sword in the sense that it requires so much collaborative efforts to produce movies. It yet comes down to a very individual interpretation. Again - best of luck!

Hey, Anonymous! | 3:38 p.m. July 8, 2008

Get a clue!

He didn't mean that seeing his face larger than life on the movie screen was satisfying, he meant that it was a strange and unusual experience.

Tyler | 3:38 p.m. July 8, 2008

I met Seth in kindergarten and grew up with him and then I randomly saw him in Macey's and that was the first time I had seen in since high school(we had been out about 5 years) and we talked for a while and he was just as polite and nice as he had been before and he had already made a lot of money but he didn't flaunt it or anything like that. He is not stuck on himself and is a very quality person. Congrats to him for chasing a dream and I wish him the best.

Good On Ya! | 3:44 p.m. July 8, 2008

Hey Seth, from one human to another, I'm very proud of you for working hard to live your dreams! Don't worry a moment at any of the detracting comments on this message board.

Living for dreams, whether they come true in the fullest degree or not, is the stuff of champions. The self-defeated sitting on the sidewalk of life are the fearful and cowardly who know nothing of courage and persistence.

I have a younger brother who wrote, produced, directed and starred in a film totaling about an hour and a half. He even wrote his own music. It took him years to do it but he stuck with it. You 2 are kindred spirits!

Keep swingin'!

Cats | 8:15 p.m. July 8, 2008

To ?ienne: The word is actually "Provoan" not
"Provonian."

Georgia | 9:24 p.m. July 8, 2008

Seth...Congratulations on such a big achievement! We are proud of you and thinking back...you always did make us laugh up here on Grandview Hill, so we're sure you will make others laugh as well! Good luck in all you are trying to achieve! Go PHS Alumni !

Anon 2008 | 11:16 p.m. July 8, 2008

I had to figure out what a Provoan is/was. Good luck on the Film.

Anonymous | 5:00 a.m. July 9, 2008

I wonder if the rest of America would find anything interesting about a story of a young teen from Provo H.S. It DOES sort of sound like a ripoff of "Napolean Dynamite". I HATED that movie. I found it both pathetic and sad. Nevertheless, it still seemed to achieve some level of cult status, in some "Attack of the Killer Tomatos" kind of way.

THAT movie sucked too!

To Teen Comedy: | 8:00 a.m. July 9, 2008

Just what we need -- another self-righteous critic, bent on pressuring a young artist to conform to Hollywood orthodoxy and make "serious" films.

You go, Seth. Be your own man! Entertain! Make people laugh! Make "serious" movies, if you like, but don't dishonor and disrespect and lose the connection you obviously have to your audience. Whatever you do, pay no attention to the demons -- internal or external, that ruined Richard Dutcher.

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