Does Hollywood Love Christians Now?

"After my first feature film Hometown Legend had been sold to Warner Brothers, I had some meetings with the WB marketing team in 2001. Near the end of their presentation, I said, “Now you know that this film has some faith elements in it, and my Dad (the executive producer) wrote the Left Behind books, so we could take advantage of his fan base and also promote the film to churches and youth groups.” After an awkward pause where I assume they were expecting me to explain myself, they had two questions: “What are the Left Behind books, and what are youth groups?”"

I came across this article by Dallas Jenkins the other day and was curious to know what his answer would be...you'll have to read it to find out for yourself.

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PENDRAGON: SWORD OF HIS FATHER
FINALIST -2009 SAICFF Best Feature Film

 Now available for $9.95 on Behemoth! For those of you who are still undecided about purchasing this film, here is a review from someone who saw the film at the festival.

2009 SAICFF AWARDS

picture used from the Morris blog

Best Trailer Award: Changing Lives

Young Filmmakers Award: A Journey of Hope

Best Treatment: Sand Town

Best Creation Film Award: Noah’s Ark

Best Biblical Family Film Award: Binding Faith

Best Film Short Award: Prodigal Trilogy

Best Original Film Score Award: The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry

Audience Choice Award: The Widow’s Might

Best Documentary Award: The Terry Schiavo Story

Best Feature Film Award: Fireproof

BEST OF FESTIVAL: THE WIDOW'S MIGHT

Well it's finally over! The Academy was incredible with sessions about Sci-Fi From a Biblical Worldview, Behind the Scenes of Fireproof, Color Correction, Stunts and Violence in Films, All About the RED Camera and of course the theological sessions.

The Festival was also really good this year with a overall improvement in the technical quality of the films in the competition! Even though my trailer, along Pendragon, didn't win anything it was still an enjoyable festival. There are a good number of the films available for download at Behemoth.com. Several of my favorite films were Pendragon, Fireproof, The Widow's Might, Dad the Hero, Dialtone, A Collection of Fortunate Happenings, Council's Commission and Wars of Humanity III.

The Pendragon Crew and Friends
(click here to read the Burns review of the festival)

Here are some other places that have reviews/pictures from the week. TheRebelution, Nathaniel Bluedorn, Twitter-saicffsemisites and Doug's Blog.

SAICFF updates

If you are not attending next week, Jeremiah Warren is posting updates here during the Vision Forum Academy and Festival. Should be exciting, stay tuned!

If you ARE attending SAICFF, be sure to check out the Pendragon table! You can read the Pendragon blog post about it - here. Fun stuff!

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The Other Son Trailer

The Other Son Trailer from Leclerc Brothers Motion Pictures on Vimeo.

"Perhaps the greatest biblical parable of all time is that of the Prodigal Son. This gripping story has all the components of a suspense-filled novel. Mystery, drama, and forgiveness give this parable the elements of a great film. Its powerful message and rich attention to detail have been quoted by some of the world’s greatest writers including Shakespeare and Dickens. However, within the prodigal son’s redemptive message is another equally captivating, sinister, and compelling story. The film, The Other Son brings to life this powerful message, making this historic parable more powerful than ever."

Pendragon Bios

The Burns have some snazzy Cast and Crew Bios up on their website. If you haven't read them, click here, I found them fun, informative and complete with cool pictures.

Another Christian film now on DVD!

The Widow's Might

I came across this site where can see a lot of still frames here. You can also listen to an interview with John Moore here.

The Penny

After 6 weeks, I'm finally back home...after my flight was delayed 3 hours, then sitting in the plane for 3 hours (before take off) and then car trouble on the way home, three more hours.

It was a good shoot to be a part of and I learned a lot! Unfortunately I can't give out much info about the project itself :) Stay tuned to their website.

This is the DP (Ethan Ledden) and the 1st AC (yours truly) working and hanging out on The Penny.