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Windrider Int’l Student Film Festival featured in VARIETY.
May 15, 2015 | 02:34PM PT Steve Chagollan Assistant Managing Editor, Features @SteveChagollan The Angelus Student Film Festival, an annual affair that took place at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood, has assumed a new identity as the Windrider International Student Film Festival. The live-action and documentary short showcase awards three prizes worth $10,000 each [...]
Hilla Medalia: Returns To Sundance and Brings Dancing Home to Windrider
When Hilla Medalia, the award winning, Peabody winning documentarian heard CENSORED VOICES was accepted to Sundance 2015, it truly felt like she was coming home. As a student filmmaker ten years ago from Southern Illinois University, Hilla accepted an invitation from Windrider Forum to bring her emotionally charged DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM to WR Park City, [...]
Selma: A Bracing Tonic for Troubled Times
By Craig Detweiler from The Hollywood Journal It has been a rough year for race relations in America. The corrosive effects of bad religion have also made far too many headlines. Selma arrives as a refreshing tonic for our troubled times. It offers a feature length portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that rises [...]
How David Oyelowo Prepared Spiritually for “Selma”
by Cathleen Falsani, Patheos.com / The Dude Abides blog Cathleen Falsani had the chance to speak with the British actor David Oyelowo who portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the film. Born in Oxford, England to Nigerian parents, Oyelowo, 38, was raised in the Baptist church. His Christian faith continues to be a driving [...]
Sneak Preview: “Son of God” at Sundance
After a week of dramatic premieres, highly acclaimed documentaries, and daily celebrity sightings, the Windrider Forum will top off a week full of cinematic highlights with a sneak preview of the soon to be released film, Son of God. From the award-winning producers of the record-breaking miniseries The Bible, Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, comes [...]
Dr. Craig Detweiler – 2014 Spirit of Windrider Recipient
The Windrider Forum at the Sundance Film Festival has always been a model of radical collaboration, and example of how a myriad of partners can create something exponentially greater than their individual contributions. But without the vision and creative instincts of one person, Windrider might never have blown into Park City. On the 10th anniversary [...]
Windrider Forum @ Sundance – A Perfect 10
Even before the lights dim and the curtain is raised, the Windrider Forum at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is guaranteed to garner a perfect 10. This will be the 10th anniversary of the annual event. The vision for Windrider was launced when co-founders John and Ed Priddy were joined in Park City by Will [...]
Ed’s Story
I always wanted to meet Job. His story is well-known to the Bible-literate and then some. A good man, inexplicably and undeservedly stricken with illness, loss, and pain – (un)helpfully told by his wife to curse God and die. I may have met him in Ed’s Story: It’s Not Over. Ed, in this slow-moving and [...]
Our Own ‘Little Red Planes’
For me, it’s a black motorcycle. When I conjure up an image of my father, I see a tattooed, leather-clad biker hurtling down an empty highway on a midnight-black cruiser. As he pursues that elusive freedom promised only by the open road, he is somehow able to tame the asphalt by channeling the power of [...]
A Small Change
There’s a Christmas song about it. Families preserve their own unique script telling children what to do when it happens. A winged character with magical dust and a wand is usually involved. And a few bucks are on the line. Small Change is a deep and moving story of loss couched in the universal childhood [...]
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