The air was crisp outside with a slight fog settling over the small town of Granite Bay which is a suburb of California’s capitol city, Sacramento. On the evening of Friday, November 17, the parking lot of a local community church was packed, the café located in the church courtyard was open for business but not because of a church service. Bayside Church was hosting its first annual 7C’s Film Festival. Silver and white balloons lined the entrance to the gymnasium-styled church building and...

On Sunday, November 26th, New Line Cinema’s The Nativity Story will become the first feature film ever to premiere at the Vatican. The Nativity Story is scheduled for a Dec. 1, 2006 release in the U.S., and will open in territories worldwide throughout the month of December. The premiere, to be held at the Vatican’s Aulo Paolo VI (Pope Paul VI Hall), will be attended by The Nativity Story ’s director Catherine Hardwicke, actors Shohreh Aghdashloo and Oscar Isaac, producers Marty Bowen and...

Tuesday, October 10---The 2nd annual Turks and Caicos International Film Festival opens next week with the premiere on October 17 of a documentary film portrait of a unique gospel talent. THE DONNIE MCCURKLIN STORY: FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT is an inspirational concert docudrama about the extraordinary yet controversial life and times of world famous gospel singer Donnie McCurklin. The gospel legend will be attending the Festival to perform in concert. On film, McCurklin is ed by Beyoncé, T...

A few words from Richard Sowada on his leaving Revelation Perth FestHi folks, You may or no know but I have been offered the position of Head of Film Programs at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) which I've accepted...so I'll be moving on from Revelation to this new post based in Melbourne. Rev is powering along and for 2007 will feature guest programmer and one of Australia's most respected film critics, Megan Spencer. I can't think of another person who understands the Rev sens...

Thursday, June 15----One of the tenets of the American system of governing is a strict separation of church and state. It is very clearly written into our Constitution, and was certainly the intention of our "founding fathers", who had experienced the persecutions of state religions in Europe. This seperation between church doctrine and the rule of law has been scrupulously followed but that wall is definitely crumbling. A number of documentaries premiering at the SILVERDOCS festival this week,...

Making of the video "JOANNES PAULUS II TALKS TO SPORT".On September 24th, 2003 a FICTS delegation, led by FICTS President, Italian Prof. Franco Ascani, and by the Polish treasurer Krzysztof Marszalik, was received at the Vatican. At the end of the meeting, His Holiness the Pope Johannes Paulus II was awarded the "Guirlande d'Honneur", FICTS most important honour, for His (then) twenty-five years of Pontificate and for His "significant and profitable action in favour of the affirmation ofethical ...

THE ION OF THE CHRIST a vivid depiction of the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life opened in the US to a huge Box Office success that sures all controversies and pre opening rumors. Mel Gibson's film has opened in the US to a huge Box Office success.It took $76.3 million on its opening week end and took another $51 mil in second weekend. Current cume nears $200 million mark. One the highest off season openings ever. Guess who is coming up for next Oscars?Sometime around the year A.D. 30...

Darren Vigil Gray, a 2004 Durango Film Festival Artist, will be honored at a reception March 10th from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Sorrel Sky Gallery.Darren Vigil Gray is a modern Indian and a modern painter. His loose and colorful style is based soundly on the idea of artist as a mediator between the earthy world of paint and the unearthly realm of artistic creation. Gray never compromises the elements of the natural world, and manages to remain firmly in the modern world. Other works by the a...

Darren Vigil Gray, a 2004 Durango Film Festival Artist, will be honored at a reception March 10th from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Sorrel Sky Gallery.Darren Vigil Gray is a modern Indian and a modern painter. His loose and colorful style is based soundly on the idea of artist as a mediator between the earthy world of paint and the unearthly realm of artistic creation. Gray never compromises the elements of the natural world, and manages to remain firmly in the modern world. Other works by the a...