Barta Heiner

Acting

Barta Heiner

Barta Lee Heiner is an actress, director, and professor of acting. She has been head of the BFA acting program at Brigham Young University since 1993. In 1992 BYU honored her with the Maeser Teaching Award for her work and dedication to the school. She earned her bachelor’s degree in speech and drama from BYU. She completed her master’s degree in acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San…

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Check Inn to ChristmasCheck Inn to Christmas · 2019
Check Inn to Christmas
★ 6.72019
MovieTV MovieRomance
Julia Crawley and Ryan Mason must unite their families during Crestridge's Centennial Christmas celebration in order to save their family inns from a chain resort.
Once I Was EngagedOnce I Was Engaged · 2021
Once I Was Engaged
★ 4.22021
MovieComedyFamily
Sequel to the indie hit, "Once I Was a Beehive" and set about two years after that film took place. The young women and their leaders have grown up (some more than others), and Bree Carrington’s surprise engagement and the whirlwind of wedding planning brings them all back together – with hilarious and touching results.
Just Let GoJust Let Go · 2015
Just Let Go
★ 3.92015
MovieDrama
After surviving a drunk driving accident that killed his pregnant wife and two kids, Chris Williams struggles to 'just let go' and forgive the young man who caused it.
Orcs!Orcs! · 2011
Orcs!
★ 3.72011
MovieActionHorror
Faced with extinction, two park rangers are forced to defend the national park against hordes of rampaging orcs. Ancient and long forgotten, these orcs are unleashed from the depths of the mountains, and they won't stop until we're all dead.
Once I Was a BeehiveOnce I Was a Beehive · 2015
Once I Was a Beehive
★ 6.32015
MovieComedyDrama
After losing her father to cancer, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls.
Escape from GermanyEscape from Germany · 2024
Escape from Germany
★ 6.72024
MovieHistoryDrama
1939, Hitler's army was closing borders, and 85 American missionaries were in Germany serving their church. The escape of these missionaries from Nazi Germany is one of the most dramatic events to occur in modern LDS history.
17 Miracles17 Miracles · 2011
17 Miracles
★ 6.02011
MovieHistoryDrama
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable actual events, and brought to you by filmmaker T.C. Christensen (Praise to the Man, The Work and the Glory), 17 Miracles will open your eyes to the stories of the Mormon Pioneers as you have never seen them before. Something extraordinary is about to happen.
Little WomenLittle Women · 2018
Little Women
★ 6.32018
MovieDrama
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.

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Donner Pass: The Road to SurvivalDonner Pass: The Road to Survival · 1978
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
★ 9.01978
MovieTV MovieAdventure
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

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