Follow the Prophet is a film that was created to show how polygamist lifestyles affect the children involved. A young girl escaping from a polygamist cult is aided by an Army colonel and a renegade female sheriff who join forces to save an even younger girl from a secret "marriage" to the cult's leader.

Release

The film premiered in 2009 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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 competition and was also screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival

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. The Opening Night on April 30, 2010 was a screening to benefit Texas Center For The Missing, Coordinator of the Houston Regional Amber Alert

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It was released for pay-per-view

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 on May 1, 2010 and on DVD on May 14.

Reception

Variety

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 magazine describes Follow the Prophet as generally an "above-average" made-for-cable film.

Recognition

• Palm Beach International Film Festival
  Palm Beach International Film Festival
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  , 2010. Official selection.
• WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2010. Remi Award.