I'd like to call your attention to a startling short film called The Angel, distributed via a YouTube channel called Alter, which bills itself as "what horror becomes next." The movie was made by a LDS husband and wife team named Barrett and Jessica Burgin, and it features a memorable and disturbing performance from the actor Doug Jones, who you may (vaguely) recognize from his many mainstream Hollywood roles (esp. Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water).
The filmmakers themselves, in the YouTube comments, describe their intentions this way: "Our film draws on the mystic folk doctrines of early Mormon settlers to evoke a cosmology that has rarely, if ever, been depicted on screen, brought to life by the incomparable Doug Jones. We approached the material with rigorous historical care, aiming to fill every frame with authentic detail while revealing the more obscure, unsettling spiritual traditions that exist on the margins of this religious history."
The Angel tells the story of a pair of polygamous wives and their encounter with... Well, I won't spoil it, other than to say that the title essentially gives it away. But I was struck by the way that the filmmakers included clear LDS iconography--the material with Jones, to me, was absolutely chilling, and I think it captures some of the same fear that Joseph Smith described upon seeing celestial beings. The Angel is compelling, well-acted, well-photographed, and I think it demonstrates that, yes, it is genuinely possible to make compelling narrative and cinematic art dealing with Mormon subject matter. I highly encourage you to check out the movie--it's only ~18 minutes long, and is worth it for the scene with Jones alone. He may be the single most unsettling Mormon character ever captured on film.
But The Angel also serves as a perfect contrast with Bowdlerizing Brigham and shows what is possible when someone is willing to actually engage with the more narratively interesting aspects of LDS belief and history. This movie, in other words, was made by people who actually care about telling a compelling story versus the kind of product that results when the Executive Producer is an unimaginative and propagandistic philistine.
It will be interesting to see if The Angel gets any kind of mention on "SeN." Again: it was made by a couple who, as far as I can tell, are loyal, TR-carrying Latter-day Saints. But their film is willing to go to "riskier" places that are usually only explored by "fringe" or "apostate" or non-LDS artists--I'm thinking of the Under the Banner of Heaven series, or Brian Evenson's The Open Curtain, or even the Gilgal Gardens in SLC--all of which I personally think are interesting examples of Mormon-related art, but which tend to get dismissed as "anti" or relegated to the margins because they aren't "faith-promoting" enough. The Angel is definitely loyal to LDS religious iconography and history. But is its narrative too far outside of the typical expectations for Mormon filmmaking?
In any case, I urge you to watch The Angel for yourself!
