Vocational Reality for Aspiring Filmmakers
This seminar addresses trends and opportunities affecting the generation of pioneering filmmakers who venture outside Hollywood. Geoffrey Botkin establishes the scriptural legitimacy of filmmaking as a vocation, along with the inherent dangers of this vocation. He points the students to important spiritual and academic qualifications for venturing into this arena. He offers perspective on how to develop vision and how to get started with small family productions.
How to Finance and Distribute a Christian Film
The issue of distribution and financing is crucial to the future of the independent Christian film industry. Rich Christiano and his brother have successfully financed, directed, filmed, and marketed several Christian films with budgets between $50,000 and a $1 million. Rich has developed a helpful model for finance and distribution success which he shares in this seminar.
A Step-by-Step Look at Producing and Independent Christian Film
Taken from one of the Director’s Workshops, held at the 2004 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, Rich Christiano explains, step-by-step, how he produced and directed Time Changer. He provides tips on how you can produce a quality Christian film for under $50,000.
Symposium on Creating Scripts that Glorify God
In this message, Geoffrey Botkin communicates biblical principles of story selection, story structure, the heroic tradition, character, theme, and basic mechanics of writing. He answers the question: How does a scriptwriter communicate sound doctrine in the context of a commercially viable and culturally powerful script?
The Twelve Most Common Mistakes of Beginning Directors
This seminar allows the aspiring director to learn from the experience of Christian directors who have come before him, thus helping him to avoid costly and discouraging mistakes.