Effective Christian Filmmaker Collaboration

There are people around the world wanting to bring people to Christ through film: From Florida to New Zealand, from Egypt to Utah. This site can facilitate their coming together to make movies of value.

Below are some ideas, but I invite you to post your suggestions. Together we can synergestically help people utilize their talents for good.

Suggestion 1: Create a page specifically for your company or dream project. Link that to a page profiling yourself. Have a discussion forum tied to your project/or company page. Link back to your own website if you have one. List what talents and resources you need. This gives you additional exposure on a site that will aggregate projects. As your project progresses, post updates, sharing with us the story behind the scenes.

 Suggestion 2: The site could periodically issue themes around which projects could be based. Once the featured project is issued, talent will be able to post their desire to fill needed parts (producer, director, composer, etc). Screen-writers could post their related screen-plays and have readers comment on them. Seeing which screenplay has the most positive reader feedback can help in choosing the screenplay that will go with the project. Like in Suggestion 1, the progress and development of the project can be posted on the site to encourage participation, involvement, and anticipation of the final product.

Suggestion 3: This one comes from you!  Please send in your suggestions using the link above that has the word “comments” in it. Also share your thoughts about Suggestions 1 and 2. Together we can bring people to Christ.

Organizing Worldwide Christian Talent

The other day, someone from another part of the world contacted me about a film script.  I thought it was amazing and  that if the Lord could send me a possible script from that country, he could definitely give another righteous desire of my heart that I’ve been praying for. 

Some people have expressed interest to me in the idea of creating Christ-centered media (or even just good old-fashioned media) and a few in actually helping out.  The key now is to create a team that can organize and build a sustainable company that is profitable from the start.  Being profitable not only helps us recruit the best talent, it gives us freedom to make movies and distribute other media according to our standards without being at the mercy of investors.  It also helps put wives at ease becuase they know a paycheck is coming.

There are so many good people out there who want to make Christian movies.  It would be wonderful to be able to organize all that talent and desire to do more good than any of us could do by ourselves.  Perhaps part of this organization’s — Beacon Enterprizes — purpose could be to really organize in a synergistic way all the Christian filmmakers out there, whether they be script writers, gaffers, directors, actors, or Moms and Dads who just want their kids to watch good, clean movies and tv shows and listen to music that teaches values and true principles. 

This would require some programmers.  So in addition to “artists” and businessmen, we need programmers.  Any volunteers?