ADVANCING THE ART OF CHRISTIAN FILM
“A people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
Flannery O’Connor
THE LATEST
Indie Filmmaker Inspiration: Mark Toia
Mark Toia never made a feature film before. He came up with an idea and explored it as a hobby. Soon it became an obsession, that became a screenplay, attached actor Neal McDonough, the directed and produced it, with 200 effects shots for under $2 million dollars. It...
Advice from Script Readers
Script readers have the difficult task of reading spec script submissions sent to studios, producers and agents, the good and the bad, and a lot of the later. I'm always interested to hear what they have to say about storytelling. They may not be great writers or...
Stanley Kubrick’s First Short Films
Handheld Camera Hell
Great Literature Editions for Christian Storytellers
CWVFF Filmmakers Guild Membership has relaunched
Faith-based films rank among best “low-budget breakout” films
CWVFF 2022 is streaming live this week!
Screenplay for “O’ Bury Me Now” is nominated for an award at Content 2022
MMP 61: 12 Westerns in 12 Months with Travis Mills
MMP 60: The Youngest Director on Netflix with Rob Smat
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
MMP 61: 12 Westerns in 12 Months with Travis Mills
Making one or two movies per year is huge effort. In 2020, the year of COVID, indie filmmaker, Travis Mills, shot 12 westerns in 12 months, and in the following year he released those 12 films in 12 months. If you’ve been following this podcast for some time, you’ll...
Notable Interviews
Rich Peluso
Executive Vice President
Sony Affirm
Dallas Jenkins
Director
The Chosen
Chris Dowling
Screenwriter/Director
Blue Miracle
Run the Race
Paul Long
President
Kappa Studios
Ben Howard
Founder/Executive VP
Third Coast Entertainment
MUST HAVE BOOKS FOR CHRISTIAN CINEPHILES
The only book for independent filmmakers in our changing world of cinema.
The fascinating origins of the Christian film history. What we wrestle with today has been dealt with in the past.
How we got where we are today in the Christian film industry.
Writing, directing, acting — it’s all here. Most every book that has followed has only complicated and encumbered the writer and filmmaker. If it was good enough for Stanley Kubrick…
Vanhoozer’s first chapter reads like a manifesto for Christian filmmakers
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“The motion picture camera, like the printing press, is a gift from God. We can use it for God’s purpose.”
James K. Friedrich in the
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