8:TMP's Sundance debut was apparently a huge success, with lots of favorable local coverage:

Plenty of folks showed up for both Sundance and the kick-off of the Utah State Legislature's 2010 General Session:

Of course, no trip to Utah would be complete without locking horns with last year's star of Buttarspalooza, who is now claiming the makers of 8: The Mormon Proposition tricked him by wearing BYU T-shirts to last year's interview that launched the documentary film:

[Pls check out this news report and come back ...for some reason, I can't get the embed to work]

Gotta love how the LDS church issues a statement calling for truthfulness and Mormon senator Chris Buttars responds by lying about the film crew who caught him on tape!

Soon after a local Utah blogger produced PROOF of Buttars' mendacity, the film's director, Reed Cowan, called on the prevaricating Utah state senator to RESIGN.

Good times!



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Here's where I start dropping random links as the story develops:

One Utah: The very special cowardice of Chris Buttars

KUTV (latest Utah TV news report): Filmmaker Calls For Buttars Resignation; Says He Lied