Halestorm Entertainment was a film production and distribution company based in Orem, Utah.
[1] It was founded in January 2001 by Kurt Hale and Dave Hunter,[2] who were both film majors at Brigham Young University.
[1] Halestorm films were largely created by, for, and about Latter-day Saints, and usually contain a high number of clichés and stereotypes about the behavior and culture of mainland Western United States members of the Church.
[3] However, with a major box office failure in The Home Teachers it faced a declining market for explicitly Mormon-themed comedy films.
[4] In response, Halestorm phased out of producing explicitly LDS-based films with Church Ball sporting fewer in-jokes and named talent in an attempt to gain a wider audience.