For many years I have hoped and prayed for Christian filmmaking that would be worthy of the message they can convey. Looking back 30 years ago, Christians were almost universally portrayed on TV and in movies as either monsters or buffoons. Unfortunately, the films being made for and by Christians didn’t help much. They suffered from small budgets and poor writing, acting and production values, featuring cardboard characters with insignificant problems which received too-easy solutions.
Today, that has all changed. For some time it has been possible to go to the theater and see Christian stories, told with quality screenplays and good production values, but March, 2018 has been a banner month, with three Christian films released on consecutive weekends leading up to Easter.
The three films also illustrate the breadth of subject matter available to Christian filmmakers: One is a docu-drama, portraying real events, the second is a biblical film and the third is a fictional narrative film. I’ll take a quick look at each one:
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