By Jacob Sahms As a child, Chris White’s trips to the cinema were imaginative and entertaining, but they also provided rich times for faith-based discussions with his father. Walking out of the theater each movie trip, White’s father would point to the connections he saw in the Bible, and ask his children to do the […]

By Jacob Sahms Since his college years in the 1980s, John Grooters has been working with film production to aid non-profits and denominations. When he and his wife launched their own production company in 2001, they made themselves available for all of the stages in the process of filmmaking, and partnered with Voices of the […]

By Jacob Sahms Ends of the Earth, a documentary about the Mission Aviation Fellowship, tells how MAF originated after World War II when several fighter pilots set out to use their flying skills to share the Gospel with communities that were impossible to reach except by air. Seventy-five years later, the documentary shares the MAF’s […]

By Jacob Sahms Fran Kranz, best known for his roles in FOX’s Dollhouse and the thriller/horror film The Cabin in the Woods, shows a depth of thought in his directorial debut that proves actors play roles and screenwriters tell stories. Unlike the fanciful work Kranz has acted in, his story Mass tells about an all-too-realistic […]

By Jacob Sahms When writer/director Stephen Chbosky saw Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway three years ago, he recognized a kinship between the title character and Logan Lerman’s Charlie in Chbosky’s film Perks of Being a Wallflower. In fact, in the original novel Chbosky wrote, Charlie writes to a friend about his experience during his freshman […]

By Jacob Sahms Since God’s Not Dead released in 2014, David A.R. White has watched culture change and has used his movie franchise to create conversation about bringing God back into the classroom, whether it be high school or university, or in the upcoming God’s Not Dead: We the People, in the classrooms of home schooled children […]

By Jacob Sahms Sian Heder’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, background shows up clearly but not in a thick, stereotypical accent or shout-outs to the Boston Red Sox or Bruins. Instead, it shows up in the deep-thinking way that she approaches making a remarkable film about the deaf community, and the way that she’s taken the French film […]

By Jacob Sahms In December 2019, Mary Katherine Backstrom was feeling the Christmas spirit. She paid for the purchases of the woman standing in line behind her at Wawa, and walked outside to find a man washing the windows of her car. Thanking him profusely, Backstrom even hugged him, before realizing … that it wasn’t […]

By Jacob Sahms Jason Michael Berman grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, an entrepreneur as a teenager. Attending the Friends School of Baltimore, he picked up the philosophy of Quakerism, that God is in everyone, and found the experience of the peace and quiet mixed into his schooling to be cathartic. But he also struggled through […]

By Jacob Sahms Imagine you had to be interviewed as a soul to be determined worthy for a body on Earth. Imagine what about your personality and character would argue for you, or what would get in the way of your selection. Imagine the interviewer was someone who had once lived and had his own […]