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I am...

Besides having an overwhelming desire to create a quality christian film, I... am a christian I was 18 years old and a college freshmen when God relentlessly pursued me and called into Himself. Now I am 28 years old and I live in Minnesota. I work for a small corporation called Wal-mart. I went to college for four years but never graduated. While I was in college I was a mass communications major and was in the process of switching to the film program when I dropped out. I don't know why I didn't stick with it and graduate. I think on some level I was freaked out by the fact I could actually do something I loved. So now here I am 10 years later and two years away from the big 3 OH. I've been focuses on writing a screen play for years now but two things kicked everything into high gear. One of my friends suggested that I write a 30 before 30 list( 30 things to accomplish/try before you turn 30) and write a blog ( suggestions were made during two different conversations). My 30 before 30 list turned out to be a 10 in 2 list. There really aren't 30 things I have a desire to do before I turn 30. Ten is kind of a stretch too.  I realized that all I really want to do is write a screen play and that is what this blog is about. I get that hardly anyone will read this blog and I am OK with that. If nothing else this blog keeps me accountable to myself. I've written more in the last few days than I have for years.

What have I been doing between dropping out of college and working for walmart? Well, for the last four years I have been reading how-to books and used film studies text books. I also find reading published scripts for movies that have already been made very helpful. I watch an embarrassing number of movies and listen to the DVD commentary. Yes it probably would have been easier to graduate from college, but I am a maverick.

Mission Statement

I would like to see a relevant well written, well produced, well acted movie about people who happen to be Christians. I would like to see a movie about concepts like faith, forgiveness, integrity, purity, and redemption to name a few. I would like to see a christian movie that has contemporary dialog and non cheesy music. I think Casting Crowns and Thirdday are great bands but I am sick of hearing their songs in "faith films" in lame montage form. I want to watch a christian movie with an awesome soundtrack straight from my itunes. I want there to be songs on the soundtrack from Eleventyseven, Hello Kelly, Everyday Sunday, Hawk Nelson, Heath Mcnease, Love Out Loud, Family Force Five, John Reuben, FM Static...I would like to see a movie that seems like the offspring of Fox Faith and Fox Searchlight Films if they ever mated. For all of you who aren't film geeks let me put it this way, if Juno and Amazing Grace had a baby. I have tried in vain to find such a cinematic gem. I have watched just about everything netflix has to offer from it's Faith and Spirituality section stopping short of Veggie Tales. How cool would it be if Veggie Tales did a salute to Family Force Five?...I digress. In my quest to find a christian movie that speaks honestly and well doesn't stink I have come across some just plain badness. I won't list specific titles, but com' on man...I want to see a movie that draws people to Christ honestly without pulling punches and sugar coating His truth. I have decided if I ever want to see this movie I must write it. This is my quest, to write a non cheesy christian movie that believers can identify with and non-believers will hear and know truth from.  Please follow along with me as I write a screenplay with no formal training, just a stack of  used text books from Half Price Books and a lot of ambition.