We are Stronger
Director: Jake Allen
Non-Profit affiliation: Reflective Life Ministries
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Feature
Run Time: 2 hours 5 minutes
WE ARE STRONGER is a faith-based movie exploring a soldiers battle with PTSD. As he struggles to recover from his injuries, reclaim his marriage, and adjust to life after combat. Vic discovers he can't do it alone. While the film is fictional, it’s based on numerous, real testimonies of some of the actors and actresses playing their own roles in the movie.
Master Sergeant Victor Raphael is nearing the end of his military career when an explosion in Afghanistan leaves him injured. Back home, he is thrust into battle once again, but he hasn't been trained for this type of warfare. With his career behind him and painful physical therapy ahead, he finds himself without a purpose and in a war with his own mind. Having spent years with an ocean between them, his wife, Michelle, is distant and their marriage seems to be held together only by her sense of duty.
From leading troops into battle to being unable to leave the house, Vic finds himself isolated in more ways than he ever thought possible, until the unexpected happens. Through the help of two kids and some unlikely heroes, Vic must face the trauma and the wounds on his soul to save his marriage and to help his fellow brother in need. To succeed he must discover the true source of strength and realize he can't do it alone if he is going to win this war and emerge STRONGER.
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Where is my Home?
Director: The Church of Almighty God
Church affiliation: The Church of Almighty God
Country of filming: Taiwan
Film Type: Feature
Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes 41 seconds
“Where Is My Home” has been adapted from a true experience of a Christian. The film describes in detail the protagonist’s life of wandering from home to home at a young age as a result of her parents’ divorce. After growing, up she suffers even more painful events such as accidents in the home, illness of her mother, death of her father, and estrangement from her relatives and friends. It is only after she believes in God that she begins to come out from her suffering and find a happy life. By believing in God, the protagonist discovers a true sense of belonging in her soul, bringing a ray of hope to all those who live amidst suffering and helplessness.
Epiphany
Director: Stephen Levy
Country of filming: United Kingdom
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 11 minutes 30 seconds
Lenny Campbell, late teens, mugs a youth in an alleyway, somewhere in East London. James Haze, mid 30S, finds himself face to face with a man in a hoody. They stop and stare at each other, likened to a Mexican standoff. Lenny removes his hood, politely asking James for some change, who instead offers Lenny a sandwich and a hot drink.
Both men sit at a table in cafe. James notices a large crucifix wrapped around Lenny's neck. A spiritual conversation arises followed by an emotional response from Lenny who is left bewildered and walks off feeling spiritually challenged.
While all of this is taking place, Lenny is unaware that he is being watched by Tony an aggressive gangster type who asks him to meet at a local abandoned warehouse. To Lenny's horror, James is battered and bruised and tied to a chair. They decide they must kill James because he can identify the men.
Later that day, Lenny proceeds listlessly towards a church where his late mother use to take him to ponder the day's events.
Agnostic
Director: Luke Hawthorne
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 40 minutes
Chance Grey has had a tough go at life. His father abandoned him at a young age and his mother died of an overdose. Having been raised in foster care it was easy for him to feel that no one cares for him and that he will have to create his own destiny. When he loses everything that he has worked for (College Football Scholarship) he comes back to his hometown with nowhere to go until his old foster care buddy offers him a job on his crew. Chance knows drug dealing isn't the lifestyle he should choose but the benefits seem to outweigh the danger, until one night when a drug deal goes wrong and Chance is left for dead chained to a rock in the middle of the desert. There Chance is confronted by an omnipresent being who takes Chance through his life history and reveals to Chance that he was never really alone.
The Substitute
Director: Matthew McCaulley
Church Affiliation: Light of Life Films, a ministry of Journey Church
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 17 minutes 4 seconds
Sergeant William Burke has had to handle many tough situations in his 20+ years in law enforcement. But this was no ordinary day. And little did Sergeant Burke know that today everything he believed would be put to the ultimate test.
The Network
Director: Chason Laing
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Pilot
Runtime: 30 mins
After losing his job Chris Hardy agrees to help his father Garret start a television network despite their lack of experience and know-how, but when viewers don't come and friends don't support their cause the two of them must find a reason to continue on.
The Mysterious Note
Director: Rich Aguilera
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes 49 seconds
A reluctant family accompanies their businessman father to a small town. His mission is to repossess a hardware store that is run using a Biblical model of stewardship. The younger son meets a couple of local kids and together they discover a mysterious note in the store basement that might change everything.
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In Character
Director: Christian E Igbinovia
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes 47 seconds
Due to backlash from his unpopular position on a controversial subject, filmmaker, Chris Mann, loses all funding, and is at risk of losing his entire savings and his dream, three days before beginning production on his first feature film, "In Character." However, through the incredible hustle and drive of his producer, Stanley Little, he gets an opportunity to gain it all back, under 'certain conditions', which would also require his wavering from his personal conviction. Will he give in?
Crowns
Director: Alek Geaerhart
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 17 minutes 15 seconds
A miracle occurs during the filming of an ISIS execution video where 3 Christians are to be slain.
Access Denied
Director: Jerry J. Cunningham
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 4 minutes 42 seconds
Mitt Foster, (70 years old) wishes for nothing more in life, but to spend time with his only Grand Children. But because of the lack of technology, he is being denied that chance.
Here
Director: Chase Baker
Writer: Eric McClenahan
Church Affiliation: Montrose Church, Montrose California
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 8 minutes 12 seconds
A woman reflects on life and love on stage.
A Safe Place
Director: Jeffrey Adkins
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
A young couple Manfred (played by Tony Barber) and Sarah (Joanna Adams) King turn to alcohol to deal with the pain of the needless death of their daughter Lucy (Bethany Schilling and Averi Adkins). Their bitterness tears their relationship apart leading to Manfred losing Sarah, his job, and his bar tab all in one day.
Manfred begins to attend Celebrate Recovery after his friend Paul (played by Chris Malone) and his bartender Randy (Mark Wodarski) shows him how his life has become a prison due to alcohol. Sarah contemplates divorce with the advice of her Fab Four Friends (Melissa Temme, Paulette Gardner, and Sarah Velems) while she wrestles with the grief of her previous decisions.
Everyone has hang-up, hurts, and habits and need people to come along side in support. That maybe dealing with the anger and how that affects children (James Allison, Dominik McKenney-George, Susannah Hare, and Sydney Keating), depression (Dave Wisniewsk) or addiction ( Jody Gardner)
Join the Table
Director: Alek Geaerhart
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 17 minutes 15 seconds
A modern day adaptation of the Prodigal Son Story.
Just a Prayer
Director: Roczó-Nagy Zoltán
Country of filming: Hungary
Language:Hungarian
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 5 minutes 23 seconds
A modern day adaptation of the Prodigal Son Story.
What is Human
Director: Jake Bergen
Country of filming: Uganda
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 5 minutes 26 seconds
A victim of a war-ravaged past, an auntie in an African orphanage sees history repeating itself in the lives of the children she cares for, and considers life as she looks at a new generation of children dealing with age-old problems.
Porn Beast
Director: Corey Wilkes
Country of filming: United States
Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 8 minutes 13 seconds
The path to righteousness isn't easy, it's filled with spiritual warfare and fleshly desires, as this young man will soon discover.
