AGWM personnel, Denise Godwin, who is the Acting Director of International Media Ministries (IMM) based in Spain, tells of an exciting new development for a film that IMM shot last year. It's a full-length film that has been created with the goal of reaching young people in the bankrupt economy of Spain. It carries a message of hope and a new perspective on God that the young people of Spain likely have not encountered. The film has won an honorable mention from among 900 films at a secular film festival in Mexico, and their is interest of distributors in Europe. From the reactions at screenings, it is obvious that people are moved by this story of sacrifice. It is already a spiritual success in that it has impacted the actors who were not Christians. It has also just been featured in an article on a major Spanish Christian website.
AGWM personnel, Denise Godwin, who is the Acting Director of International Media Ministries (IMM) based in Spain, tells of an exciting new development for a film that IMM shot last year. It's a full-length film that has been created with the goal of reaching young people in the bankrupt economy of Spain. It carries a message of hope and a new perspective on God that the young people of Spain likely have not encountered. The film has won an honorable mention from among 900 films at a secular film festival in Mexico, and their is interest of distributors in Europe. From the reactions at screenings, it is obvious that people are moved by this story of sacrifice. It is already a spiritual success in that it has impacted the actors who were not Christians. It has also just been featured in an article on a major Spanish Christian website.
Denise tells of the production and plan for the distribution of this film.. “We had despaired of distribution and planned to do it ourselves. Our plan was so good that a distributor has decided to help us release the film into the secular movie theaters in Spain and possibly other parts of Europe. In Spain there is a general hostility to religion because of having enforced religion in their recent history; everything in their society has a layer of religion over it…the holidays, the names of food, the street names. People have become jaded and often hostile.
“The wonder of God opening the door for distribution in secular cinemas is that there we can reach people who would not go to a church. Their vision of who God is can be transformed with story. They might just take another look at Jesus as savior, not as a religious relic. Pray with us in the coming months that lives will be changed in May whenEn Apatia (In Apathy) comes to theaters.”Denise shared a synopsis of the story: Young Marcus has received an agnostic upbringing, a legacy of hatred. He now is drowning in a life of excess, but others will pay the price for his actions. Can apathy survive in the face of sacrifice? In the face of death everything will change.
God has birthed in the IMM team a vision not only to bring this film to the theaters in Spain but to find other evangelistic Christian films to bring to Europe. At this point in time, no one is in the business of bringing films of hope to the Spanish market place. It's an amazing opportunity to support the small Christian church in Spain (1.2 million evangelicals) and introduce people to Jesus in a new way.