Posts filed under "Featured Films"
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 [...]
Wrestling with Foxcatcher
By Elijah Davidson ,Reel Spirituality Foxcatcher is a quiet film. Like a patriarch who refuses to talk about his feelings, the film sits still, apparently brooding, unbothered by your presence in the room. It takes its time, does what it wants, and only gets up when the game is over. The game, in this case, [...]
Gods and Kings: Ridley Scott’s Exodus and Interfaith Dialogue
By Dr. Kutter Callaway Dr. Callaway is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. His musings are typically focused on film, music, and contemporary culture. It had all the makings of a stereotypical joke. You know the one: a Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a screening of [...]
“Little Red Plane” directed by Joey Jones
“Little Red Plane” is a lushly visual short film about a little boy whose toy plane allows him to embark on a “flight of fancy” that reunites him with is deceased fighter pilot father. In doing so, it examines issues that might be considered a little heavy for an animated short film. For those of [...]
“Small Change” directed by Anna McGrath
“Small Change” directed by Anna McGrath Loss is a universal human experience. Often the most attention is given to the big losses in our lives. Anna McGrath’s award-winning film, Small Change, honors the small, but no less significant, losses in our lives in a film that also respects how different each person’s journey is in [...]
“Driftwood” Directed by Michelle Steffes
Blaire Farrow has grown tired of her job as a client liaison for a wish-granting foundation. She and her co-worker Jimmy bicker every day, and she hasn’t had a date in what feels like centuries. When Farrow decides to take in a handsome amnesiac, she thinks she’s found everything she’s ever wanted. But, there may [...]
“DEFACE” Directed by John Arlotto
When a North Korean man is pushed to the edge by his daughter’s senseless death, he risks his life to challenge the oppressive government, making his voice heard through an extreme and unusual action. Deface is the story of Sooyoung, a faceless factory worker in a small town in North Korea who stays quiet and [...]
“PATROL” Directed by John Patton Ford
“PATROL” directed by John Patton Ford is a touching movie about a sad character, norm. Norm hates his life as a security guard. He wanted a life of action, not a life of busting vandals at the mall. So when his six-year-old son shows up for visitation and mistakes him for a cop, Norm plays [...]
“On the Road to Tel-Aviv” directed by Khen Shalem
“On the Road to Tel-Aviv” is a drama (with comedy elements) that shows how, under the tense reality of war and terror, enemies can sometimes find themselves in the same boat (or in the same bus). It is a story of a young Israeli who finds himself in a frightening situation when a suspicious looking [...]
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