By Jacob Sahms As a kid growing up outside of Chicago, Tony Cervone idolized the stars of his city’s teams, like the Bears of ‘85 or the Bulls of ‘91-93. He never imagined that he’d be sitting next to His Airness, Michael Jordan, one day, but as the director of animation for Jordan’s feature film Space […]

By Jacob Sahms Having grown up in the Methodist church in Georgia, screenwriter and director Scott Teems knows that religion is just baked into your upbringing, that everyone has experienced it in one form or another. While he’s known for writing horror-based stories for Blumhouse Films and has been tapped to write the screenplay for […]

By Jacob Sahms One of the recent Netflix options aimed at younger audiences draws its inspiration from the Dutch story De brief voor de Koning by Tonke Dragt. Developed for television by Will Davies, the show maximizes the various talents of some young European actors, with a smattering of adult actors you may recognize from BBC […]

By Jacob Sahms Director Dallas Jenkins remembers January 20, 2017, well, even if it is not favorably. At nine a.m., he was eagerly awaiting the release of his feature-length debut, The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, in theaters, headlined by Brett Dalton and Shawn Michaels. By noon, the numbers were in, the film was a commercial […]

Here’s a list of Dove-Approved films that are available to rent or buy digitally at ChristianCinema.com for your family to watch and discuss heading into Easter. Ben-Hur Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar’s reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright […]

By Jacob Sahms In 2011, during a break from shooting footage on top of the Rockefeller Center for the conclusion of The Adjustment Bureau, Joel Viertel approached director George Nolfi and actor Anthony Mackie with the idea for another film. On the top floor of the building known for John D. Rockefeller’s real estate dominance, […]

By Jacob Sahms Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, director, and producer Ann Druyan experienced scientific ridicule, not once but twice. Nearly fifty years later, she’s still standing, having overcome the initial sense of embarrassment and tears that followed her from high school and into college. Once described by her college professor as unteachable, Druyan went […]

By Jacob Sahms In 2002, Jeremy Camp exploded onto the Contemporary Christian Music scene with hits like “Walk by Faith” and “Understand.” But just two years earlier, the singer/songwriter had lost his best friend and wife to ovarian cancer, just months after marrying her. While Camp has gone on to release eleven studio albums (four […]

By Jacob Sahms Director Andrew Heckler remembers the first time racism stopped him in his tracks. While his father’s work took the family throughout the South, his family operated from a sense of being “fairly colorblind,” in his words. But when they stopped at a little town in Georgia for a meal at a small […]

By Jacob Sahms A man stares across a war torn street as heavy fire falls down around him. Across the street, a young girl screams in tears, the remains of her family scattered around her. Dave Eubank hesitates where he is, for a split second, before running through the smoke toward the young girl, the […]