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I've searched as many scripts as I can possibly read without my eyeballs falling out of my face, but there's just nothing on here that really fits what I'm looking for.
This summer, as I have done every year for the past five years, I plan on making a film to enter into the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, which offers the highest grand prize of any film festival in the world: $101,000. Not to mention another hundred grand that will be split up into different categories.
The plan is to film something in June and July. The deadline is October 1st. The festival is next January.
What I'm looking for is someone who can help me develop and write a fifteen minute Christian film that can be made on a small budget, and that is made up of a cast of a few teenagers and possibly a couple of adults as minor characters.
I'd be happy to provide some footage of some previous work I have done as a Director of Photography. This will be my first time directing though.
I'm just a student, and that obviously means that there is no payment. There's no payment for anyone involved, actually. You will receive a writing credit and a copy of the DVD, and if the film wins any of the more significant categories (that offer something more than a few hundred bucks) you will receive five percent. If it wins the grand prize, you will get ten percent, which is around ten thousand dollars.
If it doesn't win anything, then we all have longer resumes.
Please PM me if you're interesting. This is a serious thread. I know I've committed to filming pre-written screenplays on here before that have fallen through, but this being specifically developed for my limitations would most definitely make it easier to pull everything together.
By Christian I mean a film centered around a very overt Christian theme. Not just a film with good morals, but a film that is specifically Christian based.
The thing is that on the second post, replying to ste, the writer says he is planning to shoot it:
"Yeah, I'm actually in the middle of lining the script so I can shoot it here in town for a grade. If filming goes as planned, I plan to extend it to about 40 pages and film that, in hopes of submitting it to a film festival."
Gabe
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Tsk-tsk, Rob. It may not be everybody's speed, but let's be a little more tolerant.
I don't mind religion or religious movies, I just think the other way around is much more interesting from a writing/storytelling standpoint. A "praise-the-lord"-movie sounds very Hollywood-ending'ish - hence the yawn.
Down in the hole / Jesus tries to crack a smile / Beneath another shovel load
I don't mind religion or religious movies, I just think the other way around is much more interesting from a writing/storytelling standpoint. A "praise-the-lord"-movie sounds very Hollywood-ending'ish - hence the yawn.
Haha from my standpoint, it would be like Al Gore doing a documentary that's anti-Global Warming.
The goal is not to be Hollywood at all. The goal is to have the same high quality production values but tell stories that are more appropriate for a Christian audience. It doesn't have to be a film praising the Lord, but everything about the film has to glorify Him. A biography on Billy Sunday's life is just as much a Christian film as a film about David defeating Goliath.
I think the main word that would describe what the film must be is reverent.
And yes, Bert's right. The Passion proved there is an audience for this type of film. The fact that this festival--a Christian film festival that didn't exist six years ago--can now offer the highest grand prize of any festival in the world is reason enough to get behind this type of filmmaking.
And I'd just like to point out that, while I'm sure intentions were good when referring me to the script, a film about a clumsy Guardian Angel is not the type of thing I'm looking for. Films like that are very much damaging to a Christians world view, no matter how entertaining.
Anyway, I think I've got the story I'd like to develop into a script from Sandra E.
Thanks for all your responses, though.
-Chris
PS: This response is most defintely not intended to start a religious debate, and I humbly ask that you not turn this thread into one. Thanks!