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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

French documentaries, films, Fit for the Kingdom, refugee

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Theatre and Media Arts

Abstract

While spending May/June/July 2009 in Paris, France, to conduct an Individual Field Study and complete my Honors Thesis, I worked to produce two short (4-8 minute) films examining the lives of immigrant students and refugees in France who have recently converted to the LDS church. My intent has been to contribute my films to the corpus of BYU’s Fit for the Kingdom documentary project where they would be featured in the website’s streaming video collection. Fit for the Kingdom films tend to focus on one individual at a time, so my intentions as to the subject/ characters I’m seeking were specific: I planned to make one film highlighting a “foreign” student who will eventually leave France to go back home, with the other examining the life of a refugee who may not have the option to return. Throughout the preparation phase, everything went according to plan, but the results began to diverge from my expectations over the course of production and now, in the post-production (editing) phase, I find myself in possession of two documentary film stories which, though significant and effectively accomplished, will not likely see publication in any form, even as part of the website collection for which they were destined at conception.

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