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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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2013 Christian Filmmakers Academy - LIVE STREAMING!

Featuring three days of formal instruction from Christian filmmakers, including Fireproof and Courageous co-creator and producer Stephen Kendrick, for years the Christian Filmmakers Academy has helped train many of the filmmakers who have won prestigious awards at the annual San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

Now you can enjoy that same training at a very special price, and on your own schedule.

With over twenty hours of formal instruction and diverse topics, the Christian Filmmakers Academy is an incredibly valuable training opportunity for students and industry professionals alike who aspire to make films for the glory of God.

Learn to script, cast, act, produce, and direct, and much more — all from a Christian perspective!

Announcing the Inaugural CFA Livestream Experience!

For just $295, your entire family can watch all the CFA’s main room sessions LIVE online from your own living room. That's a huge savings over the in-person CFA registration fee of at least $525 per family member, not to mention all the travel expenses you save.

And if your schedule won’t permit you to watch every session live, don’t worry! We will archive each livestream session for you so that you can go back and watch anything you missed at a later date. And if a session is so good that you want to watch it over, you can do that, too!

Christian Filmmakers Academy Faculty

Academy Faculty includes a powerful cast of Christian Film industry leaders:

Doug Phillips, President of Vision Forum / Founder of the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival
Geoffrey Botkin, Veteran Writer, Director & Producer who has written and directed some of the most controversial and widely watched public affairs films of the last twenty years
Justin Tolley, Production Manager, Assistant Director and Producer (Fireproof, Letters to God, Courageous, October Baby; Lost (TV series)
Stephen Kendrick, Writer/Producer of Fireproof and Courageous
Tryg Jacobson, nationally-recognized branding expert and the founder of the Jake’s Café
Isaac Botkin, Director & Associate Producer, Visual Effects Technician (including with WETA Workshop), author of Outside Hollywood
The Leclerc Brothers of Leclerc Brothers Motion Pictures, multiple Jubilee Award-winners
Curtis Bowers, former Idaho state representative, businessman, producer, director, Winner of the 2010 SAICFF "Best of Festival" Jubilee Award.
Colin Gunn, Best of Festival Award Winner 2007, and Best Political Film Award Winner at the 2004 SAICFF
Benjamin Botkin, Christian composer, composed the soundtracks for Ace Wonder, The Mysterious Islands, and for the documentary Return of the Daughters, among other visual media projects
Pat Roy, Writer & Producer, Jonathan Park ,Christian radio and media expert.
Chad Burns, Director of Pendragon, Sword of His Father, and winner of multiple awards, Chad is founder of Burns Family Studios.

Stephen Kendrick on the SAICFA

GodHonoringMovies.com had the privilege of interviewing Stephen Kendrick, co-writer/producer of Flywheel, Facing the giants, Fireproof, and Courageous.

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San Antonio Independent Christian Film Academy (SAICFA)

Wow, what an incredibly encouraging week! I've attended every SAICFA-Festival event since 2005 and I've enjoyed it every time! Just a quick note here for those unfamiliar with all this...you can register for the Academy and Festival seperately if you wish to attend only one event but they have always been held during the same week so it just kinda makes sense to go to both. (Academy is held the first half of the week, and the Festival is held the last half)

Highlights for me at this years Academy were the lectures by Kirk Cameron "Acting" - Steven Kendrick "Directing Actors" and "Behind the Scenes of Courageous" - Geoff Botkin "Story Structure" - Isaac Botkin "Christopher Nolan vs. Steven Speilberg" - Doug Phillips "Radioactive" where he critiques Food, Inc., Avatar, The Cove, 2012, the Al Gore documentary, and more.

"[the Academy] included messages on Epistemology for Filmmakers, comparison of the acting styles of Marlon Brando with Jimmy Stewart, an amazing Christ-exalting dialogue with Kirk Cameron that ranks as one of the most inspirational messages in the history of any Vision Forum event, discussions on managing sets, unions, and a rousing, hilarious and very practical session on screen tests and acting."

-Doug Phillips

KIRK CAMERON

STEVEN KENDRICK

"Stephen took us on a first look at his latest film “Courageous,” but the substance was a no-holds bar homage to absolute duty of the Christian filmmaker to make hard choices that honor Christ, and the blessings which come from it...The maturity and excellence of the story-line, production values, acting and structure of “Courageous” was so significant, that those of us who had the privilege to be present knew we were watching the birth of something that promises to make headline news as it blazes across the nation blessing millions and changing lives for Christ."

-Doug Phillips

At the 2010 Christian Filmmaker's Academy, Stephen Kendrick (the Producer of "Flywheel", "Facing the Giants", and "Fireproof") presented a keynote message entitled " 'Courageous'-The Vision, The Story, The Lessons." Here's a snippet.

We also got to see several rough clips from their upcoming film Courageous. Let me tell ya...it's going to be REALLY good!! - Movie Website

GEOFF BOTKIN

"Geoff Botkin Wows Us With a Brilliant Discussion on Structure, Story Arc and Beats of a Well-Drafted Script."

DOUG PHILLIPS

"[Avatar] is definitely anti-coporate...it's a very personal film in the sense that when I was a kid...in high school it was the start of the environmental movement, and I made a film in high school about pollution...In the years since, trying to get documentaries funded about the environment - you can't raise any money to do that. Nobody wants to buy that stuff. So I thought if i make a big, spectacular ation science fiction film, I can embed these themes in a movie that people are going to see for other reasons. It's absolutely subversive."

-James Cameron interview on "The View", Feb. 17, 2010

"...the effectiveness of Hollywood pantheists and environmentalists to subvert culture through media, and, second, the absence of a thoughtful response in film from the Christian community because we have abandoned the dominion mandate, and failed to mount an army to take the field." Watch the clips.

I found this bag sitting on a table, and in light of the "Radioactive" lecture...I took a picture of it ;) Now don't get me wrong, I do believe it is important to take of this wonderful world God has given us, but I also believe that there is balance. Taking care of the earth shouldn't be more important than people.