going to church each week, you’ d think that would be more commonly captured on film. But we heard repeatedly,“ Thank you so much for portraying a pastor as a normal person,”“ Thank you for capturing the humor, joy and struggle of church.”
People are starving for a variety of films in the faith world, but we’ ve got a long way to go in feeding that need. Hopefully,“ Gavin Stone” was a decent step in that direction.
Dallas Jenkins has been producing and directing feature films and shorts since 2000 when he produced the feature Hometown Legend and shepherded it to distribution by Warner Brothers. He then directed multiple shorts and features that won multiple festival awards and are currently on DVD and TV all over the world, including the features Midnight Clear( Lionsgate DVD), Though None Go With Me( Hallmark Channel original), and What If …( Pure Flix DVD). He is currently Executive Director of Vertical Church Media at Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago, where he directs and produces films. His first full length feature film at Harvest,“ The Resurrection of Gavin Stone,” which stars Brett Dalton( Marvel’ s Agents of Shield), stand-up comic Anjelah Johnson, D. B. Sweeney( The Cutting Edge), Neil Flynn( ABC’ s The Middle), and WWE Superstar Shawn Michaels was released in theaters in January 2017.
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