And the winners are...
Fool4LuV Lauri Evans Deason (Writer) began her career as a broadcast journalist with Fox News. She went on to work for CBS before leaving the news to concentrate on writing for the stage and screen. Since that time, she has written and produced for theater, film, and television and served as a script consultant. In addition to FooL4LuV, her credits include the feature films Nowhere, Montana (Kostov Films, in development) and The GodMan (Flyover Films, 2005); short films FUEL (Willow Creek Films, 2007), Jaded (Dos Negros Entertainment, 2006) and Conspiracy (Smallfire Films, 2005); and the stage comedies, A Radioland Christmas (2004 – Seattle Weekly Top Pick) and Home For Christmas (2003). Revolution of Hope, a documentary about Romanian orphans she wrote and co-produced, will premiere later this year. Karen Lund (Director) is the Associate Artistic Director for the Taproot Theatre Company, and has helmed acclaimed professional theater productions nationwide. FooL4LuV marks her fi lm directing debut. A graduate of and workshop presenter for the Lincoln Center Directors Lab West, Karen has worked under Emmywinning director James Burrows on Will and Grace and Sean Lambert on The Room. She also directed the sitcom pilots My Babysitter Is An Alien, and American U , as well as staged readings of the pilot Middle of Nower, and the fi lm Saturation. Driftwood Michelle Steffes (Writer/Director) Purple State of Mind Craig Detweiler – Writer/Director Craig co-directs the Reel Spirituality Institute at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His first book, A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture, connects the dots between movies, music, TV and the divine. It has been adopted as the standard text in the field of theology and pop culture on college campuses around the world. Craig grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. He's a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Davidson College and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema/TV. Craig just completed his Ph.D. in Theology and Culture from Fuller Seminary. His dissertation, Soul Meets Body: Faith in the Internet Movie Database, will be published in 2008. Craig and his wife, Caroline, live in Los Angeles, with their children, Zoe and Theo. John Marks – Writer/Director John's first work of non-fiction, Reasons to Believe, a portrait of American Christianity, will be published by the Ecco Press, an imprint of Harper Collins, in February 2008. John, 44, grew up in Dallas, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Davidson College and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers Workshop. He currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife, Debra, and his son, Joe. Cold (2007 – 10 min.) Two bank robbers escape into the mountains. One of them must choose between life and the money as he gets stranded in the snow. Directed by: Philip G. Bloom Slumlord (2005 – 15 min.) A dark comedy that takes you on a rollercoaster ride through a day in the life of Scott Roberts, a luckless gambler. Beaten and humiliated by his bookie, Scott has two choices: sweet-talk his mom out of 20 Gs, or grab his wife and run like hell. Directed by: Justin S. Monroe & Daniel L. Sullivan The Infamous Buddy Blade (2007 – 19 min.) A quirky man in the park tries to convince a group of kids that he’s a secret agent through his stories of action and adventure. Directed by: Wes Llewellyn Bag (2007 – 10 min.) Journey with two women as they decided what to do with a bag of cocaine found in a bag in the ladies restroom. Directed by: Micah Costanza Sin Hurts (2007 – 8 min.) A woman gets more than she bargains for on a first date. This deliciously dark comedy will have you rolling in the aisles. Directed by: Nate White The Importance of Blind Dating (2006 – 29 min.) How hard is it to hook up with your soul mate? We find out as a pair of internet romancers end up at the wrong table for a hilarious mess of a first meeting. Directed by: James Buglewicz Two Rivers (2006 – 56 min.) Some 10 years ago, almost by accident, a handful of whites and Native Americans in the Northwest began meeting together to find out why relationships between Natives and non-Natives are virtually nonexistent outside of courtrooms. The results of this groups’ work together is astonishing and touching to people on both sides. Directed by: Rodney Mitchell Hope +: Surviving the Sentence of HIV/AIDS (2006 – 29 min.) Shot on location in Russia, South Africa, Jamaica, and the US, Hope + takes an up-close look at the hope found in Jesus through the lens of the greatest plague of our generation; four people from four different countries sharing one crisis, and one hope. Directed by: Matthew Porter
|
2007 HOME | WELCOME | THEME | SCHEDULE | FILMS | PANELISTS | SPONSORS | COMMITTEE
HOME | MISSION | HISTORY | ARCHIVE | SPONSORS | REGISTER | STORE | CONTACT US | CALENDAR | LINKS | SITEMAP
All materials on this web site are protected by copyright
©. All Rights Reserved by the copyright holders.
If you have questions or comments regarding
this web site, please contact
our WebMaster.
site design & creation by
Welcome to a conversation between two old friends. Welcome to a real conversation about the things that divide and unite all of us: our memories, our identities, our beliefs, our choices. Craig Detweiler and John Marks have known each other for twenty-five years. When they roomed together as sophomores at Davidson College, they were devout Christians. It was Craig’s first year in the faith, John’s last. After college, they parted ways, and when they met again, years later, they never talked about what happened... until now... Their conversation starts as a bull session between pals and becomes a story about how people make friends, and how they lose them; how people change, how they grow, and how they deal with the big stuff: death, sex, the meaning of life, God. The conversation between Craig and John captures in all its intimacy and difficulty a one on one reckoning between two people who want to understand each other but won’t compromise their beliefs. At a time when the country is ever more divided over questions of faith and doubt, welcome to a new way of talking... welcome to a new territory of the heart. Welcome to a Purple State of Mind.