Baker III, and two other companies owned by Baker - named "Corporations for Character, L.C." and "Family Films of Utah" - with "waging deceptive and illegal telemarketing campaigns pitching movies and soliciting for donations, including calls to more than 16 million phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry." The complaint seeks "a court order to permanently bar the defendants from violating the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule, as well as civil penalties, and disgorgement of their ill-gotten gains." Among the behavior described by the complaint: District Court in Florida charging Feature Films for Families, Inc., its owner Forrest S. In a related suit in May 2011, the Justice Department, acting for the Federal Trade Commission, filed a complaint in U.S. The calls were recorded advertisements for the FFFF film The Velveteen Rabbit.
In 2010, Verizon Wireless filed suit against Feature Films for Families after the company allegedly placed nearly 500,000 illegal automated telemarketing calls in ten days to the mobile phones on Verizon's network. The two companies worked together via telemarketing, but because Feature Films for Families is a for-profit corporation, this allegiance violated Missouri's No Call law. Feature Films for Families had created an alliance with the Dove Foundation, a non-profit foundation which is known for its activities of rating, reviewing, and endorsing films.
In 2009, Feature Films for Families and the Dove Foundation together paid $70,000 to Missouri's Merchandising Practices Revolving Fund after using the Dove Foundation to solicit on behalf of the for-profit Feature Films for Families to attempt to evade the Missouri No Call law. Included are titles such as The ButterCream Gang, Rigoletto, The Velveteen Rabbit, Picture Perfect, On Our Own, and The Retrievers. Produced and distributed moviesįeature Films for Families has made several direct-to-video movies. The first film it produced that won an award was Seasons of the Heart. It then moved to buying distribution rights. It initially distributed films that were in the public domain such as It's a Wonderful Life. Feature Films for Families is located in Murray, Utah.
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