By Jacob Sahms In the upcoming sports drama 12 Mighty Orphans, screenwriter/director Ty Roberts has cinematically adapted Jim Dent’s book, Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football, the non-fiction exploration of the Fort Worth Masonic House’s football team. With Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, and Luke Wilson, the film […]

By Jacob Sahms In 2002, Dreamworks Animation delivered Academy Award-nominated Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron with Matt Damon and a score from Hans Zimmer. Nineteen years later, director Elaine Bogan leads a trio of young actresses, Isabella Merced (Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Instant Family), Marsai Martin (Black-ish, Little), and Mckenna Grace (Gifted, […]

By Jacob Sahms Watching The Power of One as a kid, Brian Baugh felt a pull toward South Africa. The under-the-radar film starred Morgan Freeman and Stephen Dorff, based on a novel by Bryce Courtenay about apartheid and war during World War II. Baugh, a native of Washington, ultimately earned a Masters in African Studies […]

By Jacob Sahms There are so many lessons from sports that apply to life. Lessons about hard work, determination, perseverance. Lessons about how to lose or win with class. Lessons about who you are as an individual. But lessons about community, about teamwork, are always the ones that resonate the most with me. And halfway […]

By Jacob Sahms In My True Fairytale, seventeen-year-old Angie Goodwin disappears after a horrific car accident in Gardenland, FL, leaving the her family, her friends, and the police scrambling to find her. Meanwhile, Goodwin (Emma Kennedy), takes a journey of her own aimed at saving the world as she aims to become a real superhero. […]

By Jacob Sahms In Netflix’s film A Week Away, streaming Friday, troubled orphan Will (Kevin Quinn, Bunk’d) finds himself forced to attend the Christian summer camp run by devout Christians who love to have fun (David Koechner and Sherri Shepherd). But he also finds himself drawn to several of the camp regulars, Avery (Bailee Madison) […]

By Jacob Sahms Talking with comedian Thor Ramsey and director Christopher Shaw is a whirlwind of kinetic energy, theology, laughter, and wisdom. Together, they’ve taken an idea, then a script, and then a film trailer, and turned them into the feature-length comedy/romance/drama/satire that is the laugh out loud funny Church People. Ramsey wanted to make […]

By Jacob Sahms Nick Loeb is an actor, a businessman, a politician. But the forty-five year old who grew up loving the 1980s films of Steven Spielberg is making his directorial debut with Roe vs. Wade, a film about the legal battle over unborn children. Loeb also stars in the film as Bernard Nathanson, a […]

By Jacob Sahms The first time I talked to Chris Dowling, he had written the script for The Remaining, a film that transforms a wedding into a Left Behind-themed horror show in 2014. Later that year he directed the drama Where Love Grows from a script he wrote about a down-and-out baseball player (Kristoffer Polaha) […]