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Scott Swofford is an American film and IMAX producer. He is the BYU (Brigham Young University) Broadcasting creative director and director of content for BYUtv. He is the former director of media for the missionary department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is a member.

Swofford earned a bachelor’s degree in motion picture and TV from Brigham Young University in 1979.

His filmography includes Seasons of the Heart (1993), Rigoletto (1993), The Great American West (1995), Mysteries of Egypt (1998), Olympic Glory (1999), The Testaments: One Fold and One Shepherd (2000), The Work and the Glory (2004), and The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005).

He is the creative mind behind the “I’m a Mormon” publicity campaign for The Church of Jesus Christ. He also created the BYUtv vision, a revolutionary sister channel to KBYU-TV, which ventured into scripted dramas with the premier of Granite Flats. Under his leadership, ten new series were launched in fall 2011.

Under Swofford’s initiative in 2009, film crews followed LDS missionaries laboring each day in the mission field in order to provide new missionaries with some useful training and show new missionaries what to expect on a mission. In 2012 the project, called The District, was turned into a reality TV series on BYUtv.

Swofford is also the executive producer of the BYUtv series The Song that Changed My Life. Each episode features a popular singer or band as they describe a song that means the most to them. He also was the executive producer of the Christmas film, Silent Night, written by Christian Vuissa. In 2013 both the series and the film were accepted into the LDS Film Festival.

Swofford is director of BYUtv’s family drama television series, Granite Flats. The show’s first season, aired in 2012 and received very positive reviews and a very large fan following. Granite Flats is about a small town near a military base in the 1960s. The show focuses especially on trio of children who are trying to live normal lives, and unravel what they think are chilling mysteries, all while cold war tension surrounds them.

In 2012 BYUtv won 11 Emmy awards for it's professional family friendly programming.