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Scott Swofford is an American film producer. He is a Latter-day Saint and produces IMAX films as well as other formats. When he was director of media for the LDS Church missionary department he developed the "I'm a Mormon" campaign. He has also worked as creative director for BYU Broadcasting.
- A ‘Granite Flats’ Spinoff
- Canceling ‘Granite Flats’
- A New Direction For BYUtv
- The Future of ‘Granite Flats’
The way Swofford saw it, creating a “Granite Flats” spinoff would be a gift for fans who were left with a cliffhanger. “I absolutely feel the pain of all the fans; I was right (there) with them,” said Swofford, who was the director and executive producer of “Granite Flats.” “I knew that we’d made people invest emotional energy in these characters a...
Plummer may have been shocked when BYUtv canceled “Granite Flats,” but as a longtime writer and producer, he isn’t oblivious; he knows TV networks have to make tough decisions. “It’s OK that (‘Granite Flats’) ended and it’s OK that that happened. I mean, look, it’s show biz, that stuff happens all the time,” he said, adding that the popular HBO sho...
Swofford sought to answer one main question when he joined BYU Broadcasting in 2010 as director of content: What would it take to make BYUtv “watchable”? At this time, the network, which formed in 2000, predominantly covered BYU sports and events for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Swofford said. In his mind, the one thing that wou...
So is BYUtv finished with “Granite Flats"? As the network continues to move full steam ahead in a different direction, the window of opportunity for that mysterious world to come back to life gets narrower and narrower. But according to Dunn, BYUtv still holds the rights to the spinoff “Web of Spies.” “Who knows? Maybe (we) could reconsider. But fo...
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Apr 21, 2014 · Executive producer Scott Swofford says the show was inspired by the real-life Project MKUltra, a human research project conducted by the CIA. With Season 2 of the series...
May 18, 2015 · For anyone interested in the business of television, the first really interesting thing about BYUtv is that, according to “Granite Flats” executive producer and director Scott Swofford, it’s a...
Apr 5, 2013 · Scott Swofford made his bones producing IMAX films. Later, he pioneered the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign as director of media for the LDS Church’s Missionary Department. Today, Swofford not only has oversight for the programming of an entire cable channel that reaches more than 50 million homes, but as director of content for BYUtv ...
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Granite Flats: Created by James Shores, Scott Swofford. With Jonathan Morgan Heit, Richard Gunn, Charlie Plummer, Malia Tyler. When a mysterious object falls from the sky and an Army base explodes, three young amateur sleuths try to unveil the secrets of the small town.
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Scott Swofford is known for Granite Flats (2013), Studio C (2012) and Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001).
