Hope is rising in the Christian film movement, and the 2009 Christian Filmmakers Academy bore witness to this fact as more than 500 students gathered to seriously explore how to build a Christ-honoring replacement industry outside Hollywood. Included on this disc are PDF files containing the lecture slides from seven important messages given at the 2009 Christian Filmmakers Academy, including:

• Biblical Worldview for Filmmaking (Doug Phillips)
• The Twelve Most Common Mistakes of Beginning Filmmakers (Geoffrey Botkin)
• Cinematography I & II (Isaac Botkin)
• Before the Camera Rolls: How to Improve Any Film in 10 Minutes I & II (Geoffrey Botkin)
• The Future of Independent Christian Filmmaking I (Geoffrey Botkin)