Let’s say you’re a movie-loving Mormon who wants to check out “Titanic,” but your religious leaders won’t let you because of that one scene where a naked Kate Winslet is getting her portrait done by a way-too-happy Leonardo DiCaprio. What do you do? Well, in the early 2000s, you just went to one of the many video stores in Utah that rented out “clean” versions of Hollywood blockbusters, with the R-rated bits digitally removed by enterprising self-appointed censors. Directors Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi (both of whom have ties to the Mormon church) track the rise and fall of these film-sanitizing operations, whose do-it-yourself film revisions brought on the litigious wrath of Hollywood (including Robert Redford, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg) for their sins against copyright. This entertaining documentary offers a thoughtful examination of control over creative content, and introduces a new wrinkle in the issues of intellectual property rights in an increasingly digital society. In Person: Directors Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi

Michigan Premiere | Not rated

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