The Christian Oscar awards!~By Kyle

Every year thousands of people fall at the feet of the greatest Hollywood actors, worshipping their wonderful performance in a filthy, worldly film. The stars are portrayed as idols, and the senseless gossip that surrounds the events of the Awards prove how foolish human beings really are. But there is a ray of hope in entertainment, the San Antonio Film Festival! Hosted by Vision Forum, this festival seeks to encourage and reward Christian filmmakers in their film making ventures. The awards given include a 101,000$ check given to the best film! The festival sounds like quite a blast (maybe your family can go to it, Aunt Heather?). So, here are the six feature film finalists:

The Lost Medallion

 

When Daniel Anderson (Alex Kendrick) visits a foster home to drop off some donations, he is quickly roped into telling the kids a story. The story he tells transitions into a heart-racing adventure of Billy Stone and Allie. These two teenage friends uncover a long-lost medallion and then accidentally wish themselves back in time. The only way for Billy to save Allie’s life is to surrender the lost medallion to the evil warlord, Cobra. The adventure to gain back the medallion sends the children jumping off waterfalls,climbing cliffs, zip-lining across canyons, hiding from warriors, and sneaking into the grand hall of Cobra himself. In the end they regain the medallion.
Daniel finishes his story to the foster children with the truth about their tremendous value to God, who loves them and created them.

 

Indescribable

 

Amidst financial pressures and the uncertainties of WWI, Pastor Frederick Lehman begins to write a song about the love of God. When he gets stuck on the third verse, ten-year-old Blynn comes to the rescue by calling a sibling council and laying out a strategy to help Papa write the song. Along the way they waste a lot of paper, explore an old asylum, meet a real Jewish Rabbi, and learn about events that took place more than eight centuries earlier. Faced with failure and grief, Blynn is left grappling with a desire to love God. Can Papa help Blynn discover the truth about loving God?

Resistance Movement

 

The story of three teenagers who risk their lives when they commit treason to spread the truth in Nazi Germany. Based on the true story of the the youngest German resistance fighters in World War II.

Remember

 

P.S. There is a better trailer on the SAFF website: http://www.saicff.org/festival/program/films/entry/?id=f13814

It’s the year 2050. We are recovering from a catastrophic collapse of the economy and population implosion. We have traded our freedom for security, turned our children over to the state at birth and we take memory blocking drugs to cope. Captain Carl Onoway’s job is to protect children from adults who might attempt to break free from society’s mold and reunite with their children. Following a traumatic incident, Carl receives a series of unusual messages that challenge him to remember his past, question his beliefs about families and lead him to play a double role that not even he himself suspects. What is a man to do when he finds himself on the right side of the law, but on the wrong side of truth.
 

Return to the Hiding Place

 

In Holland during WWII, Corrie ten Boom's army of untrained teenagers including Hans Poley, Piet Hartog, and their friends navigate a deadly labyrinth of challenges to rescue the Jewish people in their panicked exodus from death.
All the while, they embark on a nonstop, action-packed hunt with the Underground involving Gestapo hijacks, daring rescues, codes in windswept old windmills, and stunning miracles in one of history's most famous dramas.
Climaxing in the true, breath-taking rescue of an entire orphanage of Jewish children marked for mass execution by Hitler’s assassins, audiences will both cheer and weep at this exciting, sobering true tale of Hans and the youth resistance movement that dared to resist one of History’s cruelest tyrants.

DUMO (KeepSake)

I can't find a trailer for this one on Youtube (it is a foreign film), so click on this link to view the trailer on the SAFF webpage: http://www.saicff.org/festival/program/films/entry/?id=f13913

 



The storyline is about the christian artist in a village, who is orphan and parent died when they were in mission, who profession is to sing a song in the street of the villages and spread the word of God through the gospel songs. the film is all about his dedication, his commitment and a his love story. This story tries to show the Nepali society caste discrimination and social discrimination when one believes in Jesus.

My predicted winner for best picture: Return to the Hiding Place
My predicted winner for the audience choice award: The Lost Medallion
My prediction for the biggest flop: Dumo (KeepSake)
The film I would like to watch the most: Return to the Hiding Place

Out of the six films, which one would you like to watch the most?

 You can view the award ceremony live from 5:30-8:00 (West Coast Time) on Saturday, Feb. 09 for the first time ever on the SAFF website: http://www.saicff.org/festival/admission/live/

For more information about the festival, click this link: http://www.saicff.org/