VFX and communicating the gospel
Using media to help preach the gospel of Jesus Christ is nothing new for the JESUS Film Project. But the use of Damah film festival and later the Global Short Film Network. We have used dialog lines from the JESUS films for such things as My Last Day (a 9-minute Japanese anime film about the crucifixion of Christ) and more recently File Zero - a 14-part 'web episode' series due to be released in 2015. From our letter this month I hope you picked up that we are finding that short films are a great way to start conversations. We've had reports from around the world from people telling us of how easy it is to start a conversation when you have a short film that you want to share with a friend. If you know about YouTube - you know this has become a global phenomenon. In our case, we seek to make films that start conversations that can lead to Christ! We acquire what we can from other sources, but we also end up making some of the films here in Orlando and with our part