A nonprofit that brings independent movies to Utah audiences is getting more deeply involved in giving support to the production side of indie film.
The filmmaking service is being renamed the Artist Foundry, and the Utah Film Center has hired its founder, Dallin Cerva, to be its manager.
The Artist Foundry, based at 320 S. 300 East in downtown Salt Lake City, offers meeting space, a screening room and editing bays for independent filmmakers who pay a membership fee. It also gives workshops and training in film skills.
Cerva said he created the service in 2015, a couple of years after he graduated from Brigham Young University, because he was discouraged to find many of his Media Arts classmates leaving Utah for work in Los Angeles or New York.