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‘Other Side of Heaven’ filmmaker has big plans to take the LDS missionary story’s sequel worldwide

Filmmaker Mitch Davis has big plans for his new movie, a sequel to his 2001 film “The Other Side of Heaven” — one of the few movies about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that received worldwide distribution.

Davis, in touting the upcoming “The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith” at a news conference Wednesday, said that when it comes to stories of faith, filmmakers have to go big or go home.

It took millions to make the new movie, Davis said, because “if we don’t spend that kind of money, no one cares what we have to say.