Moving Pictures Festival

At CREATE: Moving Pictures Festival, our mission is to present and to inspire well-told stories that draw us toward a creative God and into God’s redemptive work in the world.

As part of a larger conference, CREATE has the opportunity to present motion pictures to a diverse audience and to awaken imaginations to the power and importance of art and story. With our selections, we aim to exemplify faith, explore truth and beauty, challenge assumptions, and motivate loving response.

We want you to walk away challenged and inspired by what you see!

Friday, January 27, 8:45 pm

Screening duration:

105 minutes
Far East Deep South

Production Credits:

Director: Larissa Lam, Producer: Baldwin Chiu

Talkback:

A short time of discussion will follow.

Showing at:

Friday 8:45 pm

Description:

Canadian Premiere! FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH is an award-winning feature documentary produced by Larissa Lam and Baldwin Chiu, a husband-wife music and filmmaking team based in Los Angeles, CA. The film is based off the award-winning short film, Finding Cleveland. The film presents a very personal and unique perspective on immigration, race and American identity. The film was written and...
Saturday, January 28, 9:30 am

Screening duration:

120 minutes
Sparks - The Ken Sparks Story

Production Credits:

Director/Producer: Jeff Joslin; Producer/Writer: Ciera Danielle; Producer: Jeffrey Joslin II

Talkback:

A short time of discussion will follow.

Showing at:

Saturday 9:30 am

Description:

Beginning in his early years encountering God and football and on through his career at Carson- Newman University, we follow Ken Sparks as he finds his way as a football coach whole heartedly devoted to spreading the gospel. We see Coach Sparks faithfully pursuing God as he navigates the strain his work puts on his family, watch as he inspires...
Saturday, January 28, 2:30 pm

Screening duration:

90 minutes
Eraser//The Love Project

Production Credits:

Director: Jamie Kassler; Producer: Shalom, Mayumi, Sillavan

Showing at:

Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

Description: A fiery young schoolgirl would do anything to protect her best friend from a merciless bully - and stumbles upon a dark, mysterious ring with magical powers that just might make her problems disappear...  Part of The Love 愛 Project - Stories of love told without words
Hit List//The Love Project

Production Credits:

Director: Jamie Kassler; Producer: Shalom, Mayumi, Sillavan

Showing at:

Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

Description: An eager thief hits the jackpot as he takes on the city, until he steals from an unassuming young woman who might jeopardize his biggest heist yet. Part of The Love 愛 Project - Stories of love told without words
Lock the Gate

Production Credits:

Director: Sarah Lynn Galasso; Producer: Sarah Lynn Galasso, National Endowment for the Humanities Innovation Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, Canisius College

Showing at:

Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

After a routine sonogram at Sisters Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Sarah was rushed in to emergency surgery. After seven weeks and many challenges, her daughter, Lila Kate, was born 3.5 months early, and with an e-coli infection. Because she was so frail and only weighed 2lb, doctors were not sure she would make it through the night. She not...
The Potter's Field

Production Credits:

Director/Producer: Simon Sylvester

Showing at:

Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

When itinerant worker Mish brings her young son to meet his father for the first time, she finds a dying man begging for forgiveness. As her son settles into the routines of life with his estranged family, Mish is thrown into a maelstrom of anger, pride and guilt, forcing her to confront her own weakness. When at last she has...
This Mortal Plastik

Production Credits:

Director/Writer/Producer: Jess Irish

Talkback:

A short time of discussion will follow.

Showing at:

Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

A personal dive into the world’s most impersonal substance: plastics. A bereaved mother unfolds a surprising journey within and across oceans to understand the contemporary landscape of single-use synthetics. From the noble intentions behind its invention to scales of havoc it has wrought, this experimental documentary brings together art, history, science, and the everyday. Playfully crafted with hand-drawn illustrations and...
Aida

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Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

A young woman is stuck between development and decay, between her newborn and her aging mother. Desperate to connect, she strikes a chord that links to the deepest parts of her memory.
152.42: The Film

Production Credits:

Director: Chris Bernstorf

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Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

A short film and spoken word performance of the poem of the same name, 152.42 is about the unending awe and joy of being alive. Chris will be part of the panel in the "Creating Beauty from Ashes" workshop.
Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story

Production Credits:

Director: Jonathan Cipiti; Writers: John Priddy, Jonathan Cipiti; Producers: Makoto Fujimura, Kevin Chan, Ed Priddy, John Priddy, Michael Priddy, Sarah Moore, Windrider Productions

Talkback:

A short time of discussion will follow.

Showing at:

Saturday 2:30 pm

Description:

Identity journeys with Andrew Nemr, a Lebanese American tap dance artist, as he navigates the question, “Who am I?” Now we are going to join him, as Andrew literally dances his way through questions about family, ethnicity, race, art, and where his identity really comes from…
Saturday, January 28, 8:00 pm

Screening duration:

120 minutes
Life in Seclusion

Production Credits:

Director: Sylvain Girard; Producer: Phillippe Mac Gaw

Showing at:

Saturday 8:00 pm

Description:

The story of an exceptional destiny, that of a man who chooses to leave society to enter the contemplative life. Father Dario is Isolated in the Kadisha Valley in Lebanon, he lives in prayer and meditation, to the rhythm of the seasons and what the earth offers him.
Meek (Episode 1)

Production Credits:

Director/Producer: Jonathan Bryden

Talkback:

A short time of discussion will follow.

Showing at:

Saturday 8:00 pm

Description:

The church is facing a question that hasn't been handled well, and in the mishandling has caused deep pain, confusion and brokenness. The question is, "How does the church, in light of the Gospel, face homosexuality?" In this personal and artful pilot episode of an upcoming documentary series, filmmaker Jonathan Bryden uses his own journey to examine how the church...