Pro-Darwin ‘Creation’ Movie to Open Toronto Film Fest

(September 6, 2009) This article for the Christian Post by Josh Kimball sheds some light on a new film making its way through the festival circuit right now.

(EXCERPT) The movie, which also stars American actress Jennifer Connelly as Darwin’s wife, reveals Darwin as a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death and torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own “growing belief in a world where God has no place,” according to the film’s synopsis.

“Whether it be the levels of family and life at that time and what that constitutes in both in the death of a daughter and how a family struggles to cope with that to the big debate of the day and the discovery that Darwin made in his work – that has a massively huge audience,” said Cumberbatch, who stars in the movie as Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of the founders of geographical botany and Darwin’s closest friend.

“You’ve got a film that is a very intimate biographical portrait of a man and that’s a rich and beautiful and informing celebration of his life,” he added.

The film is currently set to release in U.K. cinemas on Sept. 25 and to make its European premiere at The Curzon Mayfair cinema next Sunday, Sept. 13. A U.S. release date has not yet been set.

The full article can be read at ChristianPost.com HERE.

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“Bella” Babies

(JAN 05, 2009)  Life imitates art imitating life.  At least that’s what the filmmakers behind “Bella” have found.

This article by Mark Earley and can be read in full at ChristianCinema.com 

(EXCERPT)  When Christian actor Eduardo Verastegui devoted his career to serving God, he had no idea what might come out of his decision. He certainly couldn’t have imagined that his widely acclaimed movie Bella would literally save lives and souls. But that’s the story that author Tim Drake tells so well in his book “Behind Bella.” 

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Magazine Highlights Most Dynamic Christian Movie Companies

(APR 05, 2007) Kevin Jackson of the Christian Post Reporter covers a Variety Magazine story:

“Magazine Highlights Most Dynamic Christian Movie Companies”

(EXCERPT) Six of the film industry’s “most dynamic” independent Christian movie firms were featured in the faith-based section of Variety, a popular daily newspaper for the entertainment industry.

Among other things, the featured piece explained how these movie companies have remained independent from the studio system in the past to keep true to religious themes, but also how many are beginning to partner with Hollywood to gain more exposure for their productions.