"Richard Alan Dutcher" (born 1964) is an American independent filmmaker who produces, writes, directs, edits, and frequently stars in his films. After making God's Army (motion picture)/God's Army, a successful 2000 movie about LDS missionaries, Dutcher became well known among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and received the nickname "The Father of Mormon Cinema.” In 2007, Dutcher left the LDS Church.

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I'm not in any way trying to genericize the Mormons. The challenge I'm kind of playing with right now is making it deeply Mormon, but at the same time accessible basically to everybody.

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I think that's great for Mormon Cinema, because people know that he's Mormon. That rubs off.

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When people saw him here in Utah, I noticed a couple of people say, 'Oh, look who it is,'.

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This deluded sense of making a film that would only appeal to Mormons, but somehow believing it's going to cross over into the mainstream.

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