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Outside Hollywood: Christians Build Alternative Production, Distribution Network
Homeschoolers Launch Alternative to Film School and Hollywood
Contact: George Escobar, 540-751-0518 MEDIA ADVISORY, Feb. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Advent Film Group (AFG), a new film company founded by homeschoolers recently completed "pickup" filming of their first movie, "Come What May" in Purcellville, Virginia. The movie has garnered wide attention because it features Patrick Henry College (PHC), a national powerhouse in debate and moot court competition. The movie centers on two PHC students who battle to overturn Roe v. Wade at the National Moot Court Championship. They are coached by Dr. Michael Farris, the real-life founder and Chancellor of PHC and a high-profile homeschooling advocate. This is the first of five movies planned by Advent. With a cast/crew of 40 homeschooled students led by film professionals, AFG's movies are similar to "Facing The Giants" in scale, budget, and aspirations. AFG's national network of supporters, now several hundred homeschooling families strong (and growing); will help promote the film's release in late Spring 2008. Homeschooled students and their parents, interested in rebuilding culture for Christ in cinema, have sought out AFG as an alternative to film school. "This fulfills part of AFG's mission," says Ex-Discovery executive and AFI producing fellow George Escobar, a homeschooling dad. "We are training students who will one-day direct big-budget films with moral integrity and fidelity to a biblical worldview." Unlike film schools where students pay large tuitions to make short or student films, AFG productions are feature-length from the start, giving the completed film immediate market value. AFG actually pays college students a small stipend even as they are trained, earn professional credits, and receive profit-participation points. Escobar explains, "We're doing this because film schools aren't working sufficiently for Christian filmmakers." Escobar claims, "The status-quo is clearly broken, otherwise big-budget faith-based or Christian-authored movies like 'Amazing Grace' or 'Narnia' would be directed by Christian directors, unless you finance the film yourself as Mel Gibson had to do for 'Passion of the Christ.'" AFG is also building a movie distribution system from within the homeschooling, pro-life/pro-family communities. Rather than sharing film revenues strictly with traditional distributors, AFG seeks to channel movie revenue into Christian and family-based organizations. Escobar remarks: "Homeschoolers have already successfully turned the public education monopoly upside down; we will now do the same in cinema production and distribution." About AFG Advent Film Group was founded by Christian filmmakers to champion the mission and vision of Patrick Henry College and other like-minded organizations to shape our culture through media. See the movie trailer at www.adventfilmgroup.com. http://christiannewswire.com/news/851145802.html |
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Click on the link above to see Escobar. He's the one in red. This is another dominionist group working on one of the seven mountains. There are wheels within wheels working here. The dominionists are quite involved in recruitment amongst the coloreds. You will find quite a number of them in the US are of South American extraction. We live in interesting times. Better start studying what's going on under your noses. Quote:
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Maybe we should take a note from their playbook and start our own altertive entertainment/moive company?
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"..turns out the film grossed more than a whopping $2 million, according to Rentrak figures, on just 700 screens."
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-...174317468.html Imagine if WN productions could generate this type of interest and turnover; yeah there are more christlings and its a bigger market but its possible to create these projects with the available software out now; we see it come close with historical epics in the mainstream-movies at times, but none of that is openly nationalists and racial so its a somewhat diluted message or only limited to historic interest. anyway imagination and creativity with a good story can overcome any budget or resources limitations. Quote:
although it would be a huge disadvantage in resources and money at this point, its still worth doing.
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