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Lareena Smith grew up a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(LDS church), also known as the Mormons.
She was raised mostly in Salt Lake City, even though she was
born in Port Angeles, Washington. |
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At age 27, Lareena married a polygamist,
and for ten years she lived as a polygamist wife in three different
marriages. In 1999 she got tired of waiting for the end of
the world, and left the fundamentalist lifestyle.
Following a forgotten dream of filmmaking, she entered the
University of Utah and made this film. |
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The movie "Polygamy and Me" is probably the
first film about polygamy directed by a woman who has
actually experienced it.
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In 2001 Lareena graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in film. She enjoys science fiction and fantasy and hopes to make feature films in the future.
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