January 09, 2012

Curtis Bowers Joins the Judging Panel for 2012 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival

SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 7, 2012 — Vision Forum Ministries and the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) announced today that Curtis Bowers will join the panel of judges for the 2012 festival, to be held February 23-25 in the Alamo City. In serving as a judge for the SAICFF, Bowers will play a part in selecting Jubilee winners in multiple categories and awarding the largest single cash prize for an American film festival: the grand prize of $101,000 for Best of Festival. Mr. Bowers is a former Idaho state representative, businessman, husband to Lauren, and father of...

August 10, 2011

Calling All Filmmakers!

Now Accepting Film Submission Entries! We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting film, treatment and score entries for the 2012 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival held February 23-25, 2012. Make history as we stand together in furtherance of distinctively biblical, independent Christian filmmaking. Submit your entries for the opportunity to become a semi-finalist and compete for the largest single cash prize in America for any film festival, and the largest single festival prize ever given to an independent Christian filmmaker — the $101,000 Best of Festival Jubilee Award! Film Submission Pricing & Deadline Information Early Bird...

November 01, 2010

San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival Announces 2010 Jubilee Award Winners

SAN ANTONIO, TX — November 1, 2010 — More than 1,700 participants representing states from coast to coast and such foreign countries as Ireland, Nigeria, and New Zealand were on hand for the presentation of the Jubilee Awards during closing ceremonies at the sixth annual San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, held at the Municipal Auditorium 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....

October 29, 2010

'Ace Wonder' Gets Sneak Preview at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival

SAN ANTONIO, TX — October 29, 2010 — The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival which kicked off yesterday in the Alamo City, will be hosting an exclusive, pre-release screening of the highly-anticipated new film, Ace Wonder: Message from a Dead Man, tonight at 7:30 at San Antonio’s Municipal Auditorium. The film is the latest project of HeuMoore Productions, whose last film, The Widow’s Might, won the $101,000 Grand Prize, as well as the Audience Choice Award, at the 2009 festival. “We’re pleased to be featuring a sneak preview of Ace Wonder to our audience tonight,” stated Doug Phillips, founder...

February 23, 2009

On Oscar Weekend, NPR Highlights Rival Christian Film Movement and Awards Ceremony

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

San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival Grants Lifetime Achievement Award to Actor Dean Jones

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 Independent Christian Film Festival Announces 2009 Jubilee Award Winners

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...