I had the privilege of participating in the “creativEDGE Artist Network: A Night of Film” Saturday evening. The Grove Center for the Arts and Media, the Damah Film Festival, Project 168, Coast Hills Community Church and the Veracity Project assembled a program of four award winning short films Saturday evening. In one of the largest ever faith-based film events in south Orange County, California, 750 people came out to see the films and hear the visual storytellers (filmmakers) describe how the films were created and how their faith impacted their craft.
“Freedom Within” (Eric Albertson), “Select Fit” (Daniel Roemer), “Most” (Billy Zabka) and “Max” (Jim O’Keefe) were showcased. The passion and creativity of each storyteller to translate his idea to the screen were a challenge to all who’ve thought of creating a visual story, but feel it can’t be done. Billy Zabka and his partner ran out of cash with a full crew hired when God provided an investor in a last second meeting in the London Heathrow airport. “Freedom Within” became a reality after Eric Albertson’s wife told him to stop talking about making a film, and to figure out what it would take to DO it. Jim O’Keefe saw a team of 107 people rally around his production for the 168 hour time frame given by the Project 168 film festival.
We live in the era of the possible. Visual Storytelling is accessible to each person who will dare to act on the desire God places in his or her heart.
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