SAVING GOD Trailer Selected for HIFF, NYPOST Contest

From our friends at Cloud 10 who are looking for votes for their SAVING GOD trailer:

Please visit the site below and VOTE FOR THE SAVING GOD TRAILER. It’s pretty prestigious to be selected for this contest and we’d love to have a good showing. And PLEASE pass on the link and tell your friends and family to vote as well.

The SAVING GOD film trailer has been selected by HOBOKEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (“HIFF”) to be part of the NYPOST.com film trailer contest. Here is information on this very exciting, exclusive contest–through one of the United States leading daily newspapers.

Film fans can get an immediate insider’s look at some of today’s hottest films by going HERE and they can vote for the winner!  The New York Post is hosting an exclusive contest where its website viewers can watch 10 edgy HIFF movie trailers, many of which will be worldwide premieres, seen for the first time by anyone who clicks onto the site! The contest, underway on April 20, will run through the festival’s May 29 start date. The winner will receive a special award at HIFF’s Oscar-like Gala Awards Ceremony.

So, send all of your fans, cast and crew to the link below to VOTE for your movie on NYPOST.com.

Go vote!

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Pot, Truth and Videodiscs

A great article by Tom Khazoyan for TheOoze.com about their unlikely adventures on the Indie Film Circuit.

(EXCERPT)  My partner and I were sitting in the home of an artist in Santa Fe, NM, enjoying a party for filmmakers and others involved in the Talking Stick Film Festival. It was a fascinating group with representatives from many Native American tribes – each with their own unique stories. In the midst of the conversation, an elderly woman began to sort some seeds in a small container, all the while talking with us about her life on a reservation in Arizona. She carefully rolled a couple of joints that she offered around the group. We politely declined, but the experience drove home the point to me that God has brought us into a unique place because of our film, Yai Wanonabälewä: The Enemy God. 

In many of the films presented at Talking Stick, white, protestant missionaries were portrayed as racist destroyers of culture. I am sure that The Enemy God was the only one that gave a positive portrayal of white missionaries in an indigenous setting. Our film even shows a cultural shift away from traditional beliefs in a positive light. So why were we, a couple of white guys who work within evangelical missions circles, there? Why were we invited and accepted graciously?

I believe that part of the reason is that we chose to respect and honor the voice of our Yanomamö brothers and sisters and to make a film that elevates indigenous peoples. It gives us an opportunity to speak to a group of people that are essentially unreached by the gospel as it is presented in America today. We were there to listen and build bridges of respect, even though we hold to a different worldview.

Experiences like this over the past year, taking our film to multiple festivals, has given us a fresh view of the challenges for filmmakers who approach their art from a Christian worldview. I would say the place we most often find ourselves is an excluded-middle; we don’t fit in the current flow of ‘Christian films’ and we don’t fit in Hollywood either. A common end result of aiming for the middle, of course, is that you get shot at from both sides. We have a film that is passed over by some because there is no clear gospel message and by others who accuse us of being racist, genocidal pigs (actual quote from an e-mail I received!) I often joke that we made a film that has something to offend everyone: nudity, violence, occult practices, drug use, and religion. 

In the midst of our struggles to deal with the love/hate feedback that comes with creative endeavors, we have worked hard to develop some principles that can keep us going. First, we must speak the truth that we are called to speak. Speaking truthfully is no guarantee of market success, but it is a prerequisite to gaining a hearing, especially from audiences that might be predisposed to doubt and may never give you a chance to speak.

 Second, it may be that I confirm success of my venture by financial and market terms, or it may be that I judge success on a scale that includes smaller influences on folks like my friends at Talking Stick. I am making the assumption that, for all of the hype, those people have probably not gone to see Fireproof or the Left Behind movies. But, they have now seen a high-quality, authentic story of God’s redemption and power, made in a context and style that they embraced.

Do yourself a favor and go read their full article at theOoze.com

 
 

For more info on the film and filmmakers visit:  The Enemy God

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Trailer-DawsBros-DangerousCalling

ProdCo: Daws Brothers Studios
Title: Dangerous Calling
Director: Josh & Jeremiah Daws
Genre: Thriller

Synopsis:  A suspense thriller set in the world of small town church politics, Dangerous Calling follows the story of Pastor Evan Burke and his wife Nora as they assume leadership of First Baptist Willit Springs after the mysterious death of the previous pastor.

Eager to get to know the new pastor, Miss Pat, the church’s controlling widow-woman, invites Evan and Nora to stay with her while she has the parsonage renovated. Left alone at Miss Pat’s beautiful home in the mountains of North Georgia, Nora begins to suspect that Miss Pat’s extremely sheltered adult son, Elijah, may have had something to do with the previous pastor’s death.

Although the story involves Christian characters, Dangerous Calling is not your typical church film. Owing more to Psycho and Misery than Left Behind, Dangerous Calling is sure to keep you on the edge of the pew. In this church the politics can be deadly.

Dangerous Calling – Trailer from Jeremiah Daws on Vimeo.

Trailer-GlowingNose-BringingUpBobby

ProdCo: Glowing Nose Productions
Title: Bringing Up Bobby

Trailer-CoramDeoStudios-NoGreaterLove

ProdCo: Coram Deo Studios
Title: No Greater Love

Trailer-AdventFilmGroup-ComeWhatMay

ProdCo: Advent Film Group
Title: Come What May

Trailer-WinningFavor

Title: Winning Favor
Director: Jamey Durham

Teaser Trailer- Winning Favor- Coming Sumer 2009 from Jamey Durham on Vimeo.

Trailer-EwaldSigamoney-JesusPeople

ProdCo: Ewald/Sigamoney Productions
Title: Jesus People

Trailer-Cloud10Pictures-SavingGod

ProdCo: Cloud Ten Pictures
Title: Saving God

For More Info on SAVING GOD movie, please visit www.savinggodmovie.com

Trailer-ElevatingEntertainment-PraiseBand

ProdCo: Elevating Entertainment & Dave Moody Productions
Title: Praise Band 

Logline: Praise Band is the funny, yet touching story of one band’s efforts in a small town church. Through their growing music ministry, the band not only reaches out to their community, but also grows in their own individual walk with God. Matt Young, the new worship leader, is hired by Pastor James Monroe to serve Crossroad Community Church. However, these young church leaders meet with much opposition from members of their congregation who still cling to traditional roots. Led by church treasurer Wayne Wilson, the congregation resist the idea of change and this new style of worship. Can Matt, along with band mates Mark Lewis, Luke Daniels and John Collins change the minds of this dwindling flock before it is too late? Praise Band – on Wednesday night they’re average, but on Sunday morning they’re praising God!

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