February 23, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, TX — February 23, 2009 — As millions of viewers tuned into the 81st Academy Awards this last weekend where they watched perversion rewarded and advanced, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on a film movement and awards ceremony with a drastically different agenda — the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) and Jubilee Awards — in a 7-minute feature story broadcast to a listening audience of more than six million. “The distinction between Hollywood’s toxic culture of death and the burgeoning Christian film movement of life was highlighted in bold this weekend,” noted Doug Phillips, founder of...
January 13, 2009
Dean Jones: “I Wouldn’t Trade This for an Oscar” SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 13, 2009 — The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF), held this last weekend in the Alamo City, presented actor Dean Jones with a Lifetime Achievement Award before a capacity crowd at the Lila Cockrell Theatre. Ken Wales, producer of Amazing Grace, the 2007 film on the life of William Wilberforce, introduced the award to Mr. Jones on behalf of the festival. “I wouldn’t trade this for an Oscar,” remarked Jones upon receiving the special Jubilee Award. Jones has played in 46 films and 5...
January 12, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 12, 2009 — More than 2,400 participants representing states from Alaska to New York and foreign cities from Cairo to Shanghai were on hand for the presentation of the Jubilee Awards during closing ceremonies at the fifth annual San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, held at the Lila Cockrell Theatre in downtown San Antonio this last weekend. “Our goal with the Jubilee Awards is to reward the work of Christian filmmakers who have artfully communicated a Christian worldview through their film production,” explained Doug Phillips, founder of the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. “Thanks...
January 08, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 8, 2009 — The Fifth Annual San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF), which begins today in the Alamo City, is breaking new ground for independent filmmakers by facilitating contracts for the semi-finalists and finalists to sell their films via download. The opportunity comes through a strategic partnership between the SAICFF and Behemoth.com, a sponsor of the SAICFF which has agreed to actively distribute independent Christian films accepted as SAICFF semi-finalists through the sponsor’s online download platform. “For years, independent Christian filmmakers have struggled to find financially viable distribution streams for their films,” noted Doug...
January 02, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 2, 2009 — Christian filmographers will take a detailed look at the widespread cultural impact that Science Fiction has had through film during the Fourth Annual Christian Filmmakers Academy (CFA) to be held January 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas. Following a year that saw Science Fiction movies account for 2.5 billion dollars of the 3.7 billion grossed by the top twenty films in the US, the CFA faculty will break down the great science fiction films of the past, even as they cast a vision for how Christians can rightfully employ this genre in the...
December 17, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, TX — December 17, 2008 — The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) has announced plans to host the World Premiere of Abraham and Isaac, a new film starring Dean Jones, as part of its fifth annual festival. The special feature — which brings to life the biblical epic of Abraham’s call to give up his own son — is part of “Hope and A Future,” a short film series produced by Crown Financial Ministries (www.crown.org) to be used in visual media teaching solutions launching in 2009. The premiere will be held at 7:30pm on January 9...
December 03, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, TX — December 3, 2008 — The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) is pleased to announce the feature finalists and semi-finalists for its fifth annual film competition to be held January 8-10 in San Antonio, Texas. Each of the selected films will compete for one or more of the SAICFF’s Jubilee Awards, for the Audience Choice Award, and for the largest single film festival grand prize of its kind in America — the $101,000 Best of Festival Jubilee Award. “After an intense period of judging, we are delighted to select our fifty finalists and semi-finalists for...