The Sun reports: Tom Cruse is the New "Christ" of Scientology.
Are all "christians" lumped together?
Does secular Hollywood see Tom Cruise & Scientology, Mel Gibson & The Passion, Pat Robertson & the 700 club all in the same club of religious nuts? And are sane bible-following Christians seen in light of these people?
In other words, do they think all Christians are crazy because of these high profile personalities and/or cults? Or are most of them intelligent to know the difference between bizarre and authentic expressions of faith.
What Can we do about?
How can we influence these perceptions of Christians/ Christianity as professionals and consumers of entertainment? How can we show authentic Christ-like Christianity in the midst of the often poor publicity of high-profile personalities?
My first film contest.
On Nov. 10th at 4pm, Sam Hendry, Marcus Sonsteby, and Tim Ingold, and I decided to make a short film in 24 hours.
The brainstorming began. . . 10 hours later, after a dead bee. a trip downtown, and one chocolate chip cookie , we were on the brink of insanity, but we pressed on and decided to shoot Sam's Idea.
Jetlagged: A guy takes the girl he loves to the airport so she may fly out of his life forever. He's an emotional wreck as he goes home, but after falling asleep on the couch he hears a knock on the door. Is it it her?
We found Alex Amendriz in the Student Center at 2:00am and somehow convinced her to act in our film. We didn't do to shabby with a final placement of 14 out of 500 entrants. The biggest thing that hurt us was time. We really wished we could have edited just another hour. But that's what happens when you spend all night coming up with the idea!
Watch the film here:
http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/item.php?itemID=142
