South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
An apartheid era widow and her husband’s torturer are the protaginists in a short film, ‘Freedom Road’, that Cape Town Christian production company Media Village has entered into the international Christian-themed speed filmmaking contest, 168 Film Festival. More than 150 teams of filmmakers have entered the contest in which teams […]
Gospel singer Sibongile Sibeko is due to release her second music video, Bambelela (Hold On) today (June 7, 2013). The award winning artist wrote Bambelela with her producer Danny Antill, as a message of hope for young and old in difficult times, reports Brettian Productions. The video is hot on the […]
Holy Ghost, the next documentary feature film to be made by Darren Wilson (Finger Of God, Furious Love, Father Of Lights) this week became the most-funded Christian film to date on the popular Kickstarter crowd funding platform, where 2 356 backers have contributed $356 655. Wilson who has just started […]
Originally published in Christian Cinema.Com Production is set to begin on the first evangelistic silent feature film since sound was added to picture. “The Good Book” is the story of a New Testament that finds its way into the hands of seven strangers and provides hope during their struggles. “The […]
Home, South Africa’s first ‘deaf movie’ — a 60 minute feature film performed by deaf actors using sign language — is launching nationwide this weekend. A contemporary adaptation of the Biblical story, The Prodigal Son, the film is being screened at churches throughout South Africa from Friday, May 24 to […]
Originally published in INContext Ministries’ World In Motion, Issue 76 The pan-Arab news giant is laying the groundwork for the launch of al-Jazeera America after its purchase of Current TV, a struggling US cable channel. Adel Iskandar, a professor of communication at Georgetown University and co-author of a 2002 book on the […]
Originally published in Charisma News The record-breaking miniseries The Bible may be on its way to the big screen. Producer Mark Burnett divulged on Monday (April 22) that he is preparing a three-hour movie version of the hit series, which aired on the History Channel. “We’re cutting a movie version […]
[notice]By ANNA-MARIA LOMBARD — originally published in www.scratchpages.co.za[/notice] God used old schoolfriend to say: “I do see you.” It’s the stuff of movies – but this story is real: He wrote his first motion picture screenplay in 10 days and secured investment from a major financial institution. Turning the screenplay […]
[notice]Father Of Lights, is the final film in a trilogy of powerful God encounters that have impacted millions of viewers around the world. ANDRE VILJOEN interviewed director, Darren Wilson in Port Elizabeth this week, at the end of a two weeks Father Of Lights tour of South Africa.[/notice] Part of […]
Originally published in The Blaze Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s “The Bible” has received a plethora of press and attention since its debut on March 3. But one of the elements surrounding the television series that hasn’t been discussed much is the fascinating set of miracles (some might simply dismiss […]