So when the Lord told me to take this movie out on tour, my first thought was a modest something-or-other, something we could manage and pull off with little to no sweat. 10-15 stops over three months. Got it. Check. But then I started down the path of putting it together, and quickly learned that God had other plans.

God dreams big. I think partly because He’s the creator of the Universe, and, you know, that by default makes Him big. But I also think part of it has to do with the fact that He’s really, really smart. He’s infinitely intelligent, so He sees things much differently than we do. I suppose it’s the same with any two beings who have vast differences in their intelligence.

I have three children, 10, 7, and 3. Since my 10 year old is almost as smart as me, let’s use the 3 year old as our example. River is of average intelligence for a kid, but let’s face it, he’s 3, so he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed just yet. Knowing that, sometimes he is faced with a problem that I KNOW he can handle, but HE doesn’t know it yet. Let’s say we’re playing blocks and we’re going to build a tower together. He looks at the situation and figures okay, I’m going to build something as tall as me. But then I come along and say, no, River, actually I want you to build a tower all the way to the ceiling. On the surface, and in River’s mind, that’s impossible. He can only reach above his head, and he’s not allowed to climb on ladders, so technically there is no way he can make this happen. Yet I insist this is what I want you to do. Now go do it.

At this point he has one of two options. Give up, or move forward in faith that his old man knows what he’s asking of him. This first hurdle is nothing to sneeze at, as I find many, many people who are still struggling to take that first step of faith into the seemingly impossible. But assuming River does trust his dad, then he starts building the blocks up to his head, and then stops and looks at me. This is as far as he can go. So, dad, what do you want to do now?

At that point, I pick him up and hold him in the air, a little higher each time, as he places the blocks on top of one another. It is the impossible for him becoming possible, and it couldn’t be easier for him. He couldn’t have foreseen that I was going to do this, frankly, because he’s not as smart as me, and I want him to learn at an early age that his dad can be trusted. Why can I be trusted? Because I love the kid.

So as I took that step of faith and started calling churches, many of which I have never had any contact with, and, even more frightening, had never heard of my films, I was only doing what my dad had asked me to do, and I was trusting that He would pick me up and make this easy. And guess what, it’s been easier than I ever dreamed. Megachurches are throwing their doors open to me, some without having seen the movie yet! I talk to them, and they begin to cry because the Holy Spirit falls on them, and they know this is God.

Do I have a lot of work in front of me, now that my vision has expanded to more fit God’s vision? Of course I do, but at least I can rest in the knowledge that even as His giant vision overtakes our little one, He’ll be right behind me, hands under my armpits, knees bent, just waiting for the perfect time to pick me up and show me how much He can be trusted.

Yet again.

At first, I told my story and then asked the prayer team at whatever church I was at to go out and pray for the people who came forward. I was just a filmmaker, I kept telling myself, I’m no preacher. For the longest time I hid behind my camera, even as I saw God move in amazing ways while filming Finger of God (and to a a large extent, Furious Love). It was a safe place to be, and I enjoyed the front row seat to God’s glory without ever having to actually get my spiritual hands dirty. But then God asked me to start speaking, and I knew the day was coming when I was going to be knee deep in it.

As is usually the case, it was one of my friends I look up to spiritually who got me off my lazy butt and stepping into what God was calling me to. I was with Will Hart, and he had just watched me minister. He came up to me afterwards and said the thing I was dreading most.

“Wilson, you gotta get out there and lay hands on people. You can’t hide anymore.”

I gave him some lame excuse about God not needing me to lay hands on people to do what He wants to do, but deep down I knew he was right. I knew I was hiding. Ultimately, I was afraid of failure and looking like a buffoon in front of hundreds of people. I was afraid of looking like an impostor. I was afraid of…well…a lot of stuff.

But if there’s one thing I SHOULD have known after making three movies about God, it’s that I have very little to do with what God does or does not do through me. I’m to be His vessel, His agent of change. To think that my holiness or amazingness or unbelievable faith aids Him in, say, healing someone, is perhaps the snobbiest thing I could think. Sure he may use me, but it’s all HIM who is doing the healing.

So I began stepping out more, growing more bold in ministry. I quickly learned that since I had been commissioned by the angel Breakthrough (see, if you don’t know my story, you’re now thinking I’m a nut) that I carried the “mantle” of breakthrough, and my wife and I began to notice a very steady answer to prayers for others when we asked for breakthrough in their lives. When I spoke in churches, I invited God to break through, and people started having crazy stuff happen to them. One guy came to a meeting and thought I was a complete lunatic, until during the ministry time he actually FELT God’s hands on his back, then FELT a chest on his, and realized that the God of the Universe was giving him a hug. After that, he was a pile of tears.

When I recently went to speak in a church in Denver, I never, ever expected for God to do what He did there. I told my story then showed Finger of God, and afterwards I just asked God to show up and be God. I jokingly mentioned at one point that I had no idea what God was about to do, hey, some of you might even get gold teeth, but, you know, probably not, because it’s not about that. That was it, that’s all I said.

I have been home for a week now, and the pastor (a good friend and ex-NFL linebacker Bryan Schwartz) keeps sending me text messages of people in his church who have been getting gold teeth and gold fillings all week long. One lady got 4 gold teeth immediately following the service! In all, as of this writing, 12 people have received gold teeth or fillings in this church of around 250 people. Everybody’s going nuts there, because nearly everyone knows someone who has been touched by this amazing insanity.

I didn’t want to write this to bring up the whole gold teeth controversy again (trust me, I’ve had my fill of that argument over the years), nor do I want to portray myself as some kind of gold tooth revivalist. I still don’t care much about gold teeth or gold dust or gemstones or manna appearing, simply because I find lives transformed far more interesting and wonderful. No, my point in writing this is to simply remind you (as well as myself) that God deeply desires a friendship with you. He’s incredibly in tune with your heart and your prayers and your words, and even when you might say something in jest, his friendship with you runs so deep that He may even do THAT for you, simply to show you how much He loves you and how much He cares about those around you.

I’m getting ready to release a film about the very character and heart of the Father. At the risk of giving away the whole thing, I can pretty much narrow the 90 minute film down to one sentence. The God of the Bible desperately wants to be your Father and your Friend.

The question, then, is this. Do you desire a friendship with Him? Or is the church going to continue to treat Him like a boss?

The products are currently being packaged to be sent to our shipping company, at which point we will be able to fulfill all orders.  Unfortunately, this final stage will most likely take the remainder of this week.  Once we have specific information on a shipping date we will be updating our website.

We do sincerely apologize for the delay and understand your frustrations.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us through email at contact@wanderlustproductions.net or by phone (847) 628-1142.

“When is Father of Lights coming out?”

While I know this will not stop the flow, I at least wanted to explain a little about our process of putting movies together here at Wanderlust Productions, and give you a peek behind the curtain, so to speak, at what we do and how we do it. Hopefully it will help answer the question as to why you have to wait so long.

The first thing you must understand is that Wanderlust is a tiny production company consisting of four people. There is myself, Braden Heckman, Brittney Banks, and Matt Bilen. That’s it. Brittney is the studio manager, bookkeeper, personal assistant, and has a host of other jobs, not least of which is trying to keep three boys from being complete idiots all the time. So when it comes to actual production stuff, it’s three people. Matt is part time at the moment, so now you’re down to two-and-a-half people. Keep that in mind as you read on…

At this point, I am nearly finished with what is called the “rough cut”. For the past month I have been building the movie. It started off as a 2:45 hour beast, which I have since widdled down to around 2 hours. I’ll soon have it just the way I want it, and at that point it will be, in a sense, the movie you will eventually see. But really, that is just the beginning for us. Next comes the time consuming (and for my guys, the really fun) part.

Everyone here will watch the rough cut, and when we’re all happy with every single thing in there, the cut will be “locked”, meaning I’m not allowed to go in an tinker with it anymore. The shots are the shots, and my voice over is my voice over. At this point, my heavy lifting for the actual movie is over, and Braden and Matt take the reigns, while I turn my attention to planning our upcoming tour of the film and putting together the Deluxe Edition DVD.

Matt is in charge of scoring the film, and since these films are known for basically having a wall of sound from end to end, he’s got a big job ahead of him. He basically has to create 2 hours of incredible music that fits the mood and intent of each section. He’ll also need to mix all the sound so the voices are all at the same volume, the music doesn’t overtake the voices, and any background stuff is either minimized or taken out completely. Matt’s the reason the movie SOUNDS good.

Braden takes charge of color correction and any titles that show up in the film. When someone’s name pops up onscreen, he did it. We usually outsource our opening titles sequences to a good friend of our who’s basically a genius, so at this point we’ll bring him in as well to start working on that. Braden will go through the film, frame by frame, and make the colors pop and really give the whole thing a professional sheen. Braden is the reason the film LOOKS good.

At some point, we’ll also need to record our director’s commentary for the DVD, and Braden will then get started on designing the DVD cover, the DVD menu, and other web stuff we’ll need associated with the film. Once the DVD is complete, we’re just getting warmed up. Next up is to finish the Deluxe Edition, which hopefully I’ve finished with the rough cut at this point. We don’t score the extras, but this Deluxe Edition will have an extended Director’s cut of the film, so Matt will have to add some music to that as well. Braden will go back in and color correct everything, Matt will do another sound mix, titles will have to be made, the DVD created, and then that is finished.

We’ll be taking this film out “on tour” so to speak this time around, and will be hitting some major cities across the United States, so I’m going to need to show some leaders the film beforehand to get them on board in helping us take their community by storm and getting the word out. Once we’ve locked in our cities and venues, we then have to kick in the marketing side of things, which is basically trying to get a lot of people to help us make the showing around the country amazing for everyone involved. We’re also hoping to have a companion CD of original and remixed music from bands and artists like Jesus Culture, Leeland, Jeremy Riddle, Barlow Girls, Kim Walker-Smith, Marc Ford (former guitarist for the Black Crowes), Jaeson Ma, and others. So we’ll need to screen the film for them and get them writing and creating songs that have been “inspired” by the film. We’ll need to create the CD, master it, etc…

At THIS point, the first of you will finally get to see the movie, and this will be sometime in the summer. We will be selling the DVD at these events, but it will not be available for the public for another month or two after the tour. We also have distribution deals with domestic and foreign distributors that need to be set up and implemented, lots of legal work to deal with, and about a million other “little” things that we have to take care of that simply go along with running a business. Oh yes, and we need to sleep every once in a while as well.

Remember, all this is done with four (well, maybe three-and-a-half) people! As soon as the DVD is released, we do it all over again with The Greatest Fight, our next film about UFC/WWF superstar Ken Shamrock. When that’s done, we do it all again with our first cartoon, Anointed Fighters.

So there is a little peek behind our curtain. Obviously we need lots of prayer during this time, so keep covering us with it, please. We also need continued favor, as we will be showing the film in the Spring to various entities in Hollywood to see if there is anything else up God’s sleeve with this film. In the end, though, it all comes down to whether or not you guys like the movie, and whether or not it pulls you closer to the heart of the Father. We’re going to work our tails off to make sure that happens to each and everyone one of you.

Just please don’t ask us anymore why we don’t simply give these movies away…

While that may seem like a fairly straightforward “duh” statement, try to understand where I am coming from. I work in an entirely VISUAL medium, and setting out to visually capture something that is not visually there can be, how shall we say, a bit tricky. I can’t help but view this film through the skeptic’s eyes, and even at this stage I dread the inevitable accusation that everything we filmed was staged. I cannot stress enough how unbelievable some of the things you are about to see will seem. As this film will probably have the highest profile of anything we’ve ever done, I am bracing myself for the strong backlash I’m sure I will face.

But all this has gotten me thinking. Why is God invisible? Why must I serve an invisible God? At its most basic form, faith in God is intensely personal, and all evangelism is based on the notion that “you have to take my word for it”. The hope is that your faith ushers in a response from someone else to step out and call on an invisible deity, wherein He will make himself known to them in a very personal way (yet remain invisible), and the whole process hopefully repeats itself. For whatever reason, this is the way God has set the game up. But again I am left with the question: why?

If we’re all truly honest with ourselves, we often have those moments of doubt where we wonder if we’re simply devoting our lives to a figment of our imagination. I recently spoke in a church in Chicago, and at the end of my talk I told everyone that God was going to meet every single one of them right here, right now. Even as I said it, I inwardly cringed, hoping beyond hope that I was telling these people the truth; that God exists and fervently desires an emotional relationship with them. So I prayed for God to show up, for Him to break through their minds and into their hearts, and then I shut up and waited.

It was an excruciating couple of minutes. Dead silence. I didn’t even have music playing in the background to help. It was all or nothing. Either God shows up invisibly, or I’m just a big idiot. And then, as it always happens, people began to encounter Him. People began to cry. And it spread all over the room. God was meeting each person individually, yet He was remaining invisible. Even as He moved, I was asking Him why He had to make it so hard? Once someone decided to serve You, why couldn’t You throw them a bone and give them, like, a 3 second glimpse of You?

In my travels around the world, one truth about God is categorically, undeniably true. When people TRULY encounter Him, He is irresistible. His love is so magnetic, so mind altering, so overpowering in its beauty and grace, when an encounter takes place there’s no going back. But since God is love, He wants our love in return, and if He were to show Himself to our natural eyes, quite simply, we wouldn’t have a choice. Love requires a choice. A choice can only be made when options are available. If God were to fully reveal Himself, all options against Him would vanish.

Exodus 33-34 gives us a good example of what we’re talking about. Moses is on Mt. Sinai, interceding for God not to destroy Israel because they were acting like numbskulls again. When God grants his request, Moses, I’m sure in a fit of radical recklessness, asks God to show him His glory. God then tells him that he can’t see His face or He’d die (so powerful is His glory) but He’ll put Moses in a cleft on the mountain and cover it with His hand until He walks by, then Moses can gaze upon His back. It’s an extraordinary privilege that very few in history have been afforded. When Moses comes down from the mountain, He freaks everyone out because his face is shining. Even the after effects of viewing God with the naked eye is enough to scare people! Think about that: Moses was allowed to see God’s back, and it was too much for OTHERS to bear. How terrifyingly irresistible IS this God of ours?

For our love of God to be real, He must remain hidden from us. But thankfully, He shows Himself to us THROUGH us, which is incredible in its humility and simplicity. You want to see Him move? You’re going to have to pray for someone. You want to feel Him inside you? You’re going to have to suspend your disbelief long enough to allow Him access to your heart. You’ll certainly see God move in Father of Lights, but even then, you’re going to have to believe that what I’m showing you actually happened as you’re seeing it. With true love there will always be choices to believe the opposite, otherwise it can’t be the fullest extent of love.

It may not be the way I always want it to be, but as usual, His ways are not my ways. Thank God for that.

Sincerely,

Way too many people than I want to name”

I currently find myself in a strange position. As a producer of movies, I often encounter people pitching their ideas to me. As a producer of fairly hardcore Christian movies, I often encounter people pitching the kind of nonsense you see above.

While recently finishing filming on my latest movie, Father of Lights in Israel with my friend Todd White, I saw a slightly different approach than the one portrayed above. Let me paint the picture for you…

We had come to Israel with no agenda; simply to see what God would do when we turned on the cameras. We had never really lived this far out on the edge before (typically, when we go somewhere we are visiting a ministry and God-adventures just kind of happen organically), and we were relying on God to end this film series in a powerful, fitting way. Needless to say He did just that, and in spectacular fashion no less, but I want to focus on another event that happened while we were filming to illustrate that there might just be another way to go about dealing with those who disagree with us.

We had just entered the Muslim district in Old Town Jerusalem, and Todd was just talking and loving on people. He began praying for people, specifically for healing, and one after another, Muslims were being healed of all sorts of pain and problems in their bodies. He would pray for them in Jesus’ name, and I then watched as they tested their bodies and looked back at him in disbelief. The pain was all gone. But of course, that’s when it got interesting.

Without fail, these Muslim men (they were all men) remarked that all the pain was gone, but would then turn to Todd and say, “But you were praying in the name of Jesus. Jesus was just a prophet. Allah has no son.” They had just encountered someone who disagreed with a major tenet of what they believed, and, like most people, they wanted to debate. They wanted us to know they didn’t agree with what we believed.

To which Todd simply replied, “That’s cool. How is your back again?”

To a man, they were stopped dead in their tracks. They had no answer, and the debate fizzled before it even started. God had touched them—Jesus had touched them, and that was a fact they could no longer debate. Their minds wanted to, but their bodies were a testimony to something that flew in the face of what they believed. So some of them slunk away, unsure what to do next. Others grabbed nearby friends and asked Todd to pray for them. This was the kingdom of God in action. If we would have stuck with words, we would have gotten nowhere. Step into the power of God, and the world stands speechless.

When I look at these two approaches, one strikes me as inherently Christ-like, and the other as, well, a little arrogant. No one wants to be converted. Everyone wants to be loved. Too often we become a stop-gap to God’s love for others because we just can’t get out of the way—like we need to break down the walls in their heads as if that is the way to their hearts.

I’d love to start getting emails from people pitching their ideas for movies about radical acts of love and kindness and service and compassion. It is disheartening that most of what is pitched to me takes an adversarial approach to those who disagree with Christianity. Aren’t we called to love our enemies? If you truly see those who disagree with you as your enemy (which taking an adversarial approach implies), then what does Christ call you to do?

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs… (1 Cor 13:4-5)

Now remember, it’s September, so it’s getting cold outside in Wisconsin, and therefore the parks had closed off their outdoor sections. This means that what is during the summer months a field of water-filled awesomeness complete with slides, characters, and watery playgrounds is now a veritable wasteland of concrete with creepy little statues everywhere. You or I would walk past the window looking out to this barrenness and think nothing of it. The outside is closed. Nothing to see here. Continue on.

But that’s not how my three year old saw it.

I don’t know how many times we walked from our room to the water park, but every time we did, we had to walk past the window showing the closed up outdoor section of the park. And every time—I kid you not—every single time we walked past that window, River, my three year old boy, would press his face up to the glass and exclaim with extreme glee, “Cool!”

Now what does this have to do with God’s kingdom? The Lord showed me the first time I walked past that window, wondering what in the world my son thought was so cool. I didn’t see anything cool. I just saw an empty, drained water park. But the eyes of a child saw something different. He saw possibility. This thoughts were not negative like mine. He didn’t see the park for what it was, he saw it for what it could be. One look at his face told me everything I needed to know. He wished so badly he could get out there and play on all that stuff. So what if there wasn’t any water, those were still slides out there. That was still stuff to climb on.

How often do we do this? How often do I do this? We see the world the way it is—crappy, broken, dirty, frightening, dangerous—and we recoil. We head underground. We hope for its quick destruction. We pray Jesus will return soon to get us out of here. But that isn’t the kingdom perspective. That’s not how God wants us to see His world. We are to have the eyes of a child. Where others see desolation, we must see possibility.

That’s the kingdom way.

]]> http://wanderlustproductions.net/2011/october-2011-musing/feed/ 2 http://wanderlustproductions.net/2011/september-2011-musing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=september-2011-musing http://wanderlustproductions.net/2011/september-2011-musing/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:15:26 +0000 Darren Wilson http://wanderlustproductions.net/?p=890 The other day my wife and I were driving in the car somewhere, the kids were screaming in the back seat, and I found myself smack in the middle of suburban America, complete with the three kids, the minivan, the suburban house…the only thing missing was the white picket fence. While contemplating this utter normalcy, my wife said something that took me a bit off guard.

“It’s amazing, isn’t it, that you’ve basically created a genre of film that never existed before.”

Have to admit, never thought about it that way before.

There are a few people who have seen my rise from complete nobody who had accomplished nothing to someone who now speaks in megachurches and has his films shown around the world, and even used in college courses! All of this has happened within three years, and while God has certainly pushed me forward fairly quickly, I have been so caught up in the process of change that it’s quite difficult for me to sit back and take it all in. But occasionally, God gives me a glimpse of what He’s done.

I was recently in Phoenix speaking at a film festival put on by my friend, Patricia King. After one of my sessions, a young man came up to me and grabbed my hand. I could tell he was about to burst, but until he spoke, I didn’t yet know the context of his emotional state. He poured out his heart to me, telling me that he had come out of the homosexual community four years ago and had felt so much pressure from the Christian community, so much judgment, and he’s had to struggle through his own healing in a fairly lonely way. But then he saw Furious Love (and this is when the tears really started to flow), and he saw what we did with that lady-boy in Thailand, how we just showed him love, and through simply watching a movie, this guy found a freedom he had never known before. He thanked me profusely, blessed me, and that was it.

Those types of things happen more and more as I meet the people who have helped make these movies the phenomenon they are, and honestly, I never tire of them. I also have absolutely no idea how to react to them. I’m a fairly introverted guy, and I like nothing more than sitting in my studio (“my little cave” as I call it) and dreaming with Jesus, partnering with the Holy Spirit, and making stuff that reveals more of the Father’s heart for this generation. I make these things for myself because I want to see God move for myself. I made Furious Love in large part because the phrase “God loves you” had lost almost all of its potency for me. That He continues to use these films in others is still the most amazing irony to me.

On September 1-7 I will be taking my final trip to film for the last movie in this trilogy, Father of Lights. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to feel saying, “that’s a wrap” on this one, because it will signify the end of an incredibly special season of my life. God called me to make films when I had no idea what I was doing. He has honed our craft and skill, brought people around me who are incredibly talented and have also bought into my vision 100%, and who want to change the world as much as I do. I had so many wild God experiences while making the first two films that I wrote a book about it. For the last 6 years of my life, these films are all I’ve known. I have never NOT been working on them. So I’m not certain what feelings I’ll have when I shut down the camera for the last time. I do know where I’ll be, though, and I find solace in the fact that I will be in one of the last locations my king stood while He was here on earth. There’s something comforting in that.

If you have been touched by these films, I truly appreciate all your kind words and thanks, but please, and I mean this in all sincerity, thank the Father. He has orchestrated all of this, and He’s shown up time and again whenever we’ve turned on the camera. If He didn’t move, these films wouldn’t exist.

Father of Lights will be the last of these types of films that I’ll probably ever do, unless God tells me otherwise. He’s already shown me our next three projects, and one of them, honestly, may just be the most controversial film in recent memory. So we have other stories to tell, other topics that Daddy wants us to explore, and my promise to you is that I will continue to make these films for myself, to move me, inform me, and teach me. The moment my focus becomes you, “the public”, is the moment we go off the tracks. In the end, we’re all family, we’re all essentially the same, so honesty is always the best course of action. If it moves me, it’s going to move you. If it teaches me, it will teach you.

That’s just the way He created us, I guess. He wants us connected with one another. Because through Him, we are truly one Body.

]]> http://wanderlustproductions.net/2011/september-2011-musing/feed/ 4 http://wanderlustproductions.net/2011/a-giant-prayer-request/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-giant-prayer-request http://wanderlustproductions.net/2011/a-giant-prayer-request/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:37:47 +0000 Darren Wilson http://wanderlustproductions.net/?p=888 Hey everyone,

From Sept. 1-7, Braden and I will be heading to Israel with Todd White to film the last part of Father of Lights. Unlike other trips, I have no overarching agenda on this one. The Lord told me that the trilogy needs to end in Israel–”end it where it all began” were, I believe, His exact words to me, and He also made it abundantly clear that I was to bring Todd White with me for this. So we’re going to film some general things all over Israel (the Lord showed me how to end it already, so I just need to capture the stuff) but, obviously, we’re hoping for some spectacular “God stuff” to go down while we’re over there.

I don’t think I need to sell you on the importance of the ending of Father of Lights being absolutely epic. We’re currently getting a lot of interest from major players in Hollywood to possibly help us with getting this film in theaters in 2012, but of course, it’s going to have to be a lights out, amazing film with one whopper of an ending.

Now, even if nothing out of the ordinary happens in Israel, the ending is going to rock, but I’m asking God for the moon here, and I’m hoping you’ll join me in praying down the spectacle of heaven wherever we film from Sept. 2-6. Would you all join me in praying for God to move in mighty, spectacular fashion? As always, please send this on to your prayer chains, and if ever there was a prayer request you copy and forwarded, hopefully it’s this one!

Here are our specific needs for this final shoot:

1) major protection over our families back home while we’re gone
2) protection for us and our equipment. We want to be invisible to the enemy even while we’re tearing down his kingdom.
3) an “ending to end all endings”. I literally have no idea what I’d even WANT to happen, and I prefer God’s ideas over my own, so please join us in praying that He will move in such a way that has never before been captured on film, so that everyone who watches this film will know at the end the undeniable goodness, power, and majesty of the King.

Thanks everyone! We’re on the home stretch! Send this to every prayer warrior you know!

Darren Wilson

OUR PROJECTS
Furious Love Event DVDs
Our sincerest apologies for those of you who pre-ordered these at the Event back in April. We knew it was going to be tight getting these things out quickly, but we had no idea exactly how much work they would be! 11 DVDs, over 22 hours of content, and lots of things to fix already means a lot of time and energy, but when you add to that our insanely busy summer schedule of traveling to finish filming our Shamrock movie and Father of Lights, well, hopefully you can see why it’s taken us so long. But we’re working very hard to get them out so you all can enjoy the wonderful content. Right now, we’re looking at an October release, but again, I’ll keep you posted as we get closer to a firm date.

The Greatest Fight
This is our film with UFC great Ken Shamrock. We’re currently awaiting clearance to use all the UFC/WWF footage we want to use within the doc, and once we get that I can finish my rough cut and Braden and Matt can go nuts making it look and sound absolutely amazing. We like to think that we’re a company that is known for pushing the limits of Christian media, and this film is certainly going to do just that. I’m hoping for it to be finished by the end of the year, for an early 2012 release. Look for a trailer coming within the next month or so!

Anointed Fighters
Our first cartoon! We’re super close to finally getting the animation that we will then take into post-production and create music to, as well as some other fun stuff. There’s truly NOTHING like this out there right now, and if you’ve been waiting for a cool cartoon with a kingdom mindset for your kids, look no further! We’re getting stoked about revealing this one.

Father of Lights
The big one. By far our number one question these days is, “When will Father of Lights be released?” Unfortunately, we can’t pinpoint a date yet simply because we don’t yet know how it will be released. Columbia Pictures is interested in seeing if it, and there are a few other options we’ll be looking into for a theatrical release for this bad boy, but again, the bigger the release, the later in 2012 it will come out. We’re hoping to have that film finished by early 2012, and after that we’ll be showing it to the powers-that-be, and then we’ll have a clearer view of a release date. I know for sure that I’ll be taking it on the road on probably a 15 city tour where we’ll be showing it in VERY large venues, so keep an eye out for that next year. Again, we’ll work to keep you up to speed on everything that happens. We’ll also probably be asking for your help at some point!

So that’s how things are progressing. Braden and I will be heading to Israel next week for the final filming of Father of Lights, so please keep us in your prayer from Sept. 1-7. We want to end this trilogy with a bang!

More to come soon…