FAITH FILM HALL OF FAME DIRECTORS

Luis Carlos Alvarez / 5000 – Golden Light House Award & Faith Audience Award
Season 2

Hans Hernke / Forgiven – Golden Light House Award
Season 1

Jason Hildebrand / The Prodigal Trilogy – Light House Vision Award
Season 2

Joey O’Connor / Unthinkable – Silver Light House Award
Season 1

Pete Bauer / Club God – Bronze light House Award
Season 1

Brandon Adams / Bread Alone – Light House Lens Award
Season 1

Paul Preston / Sweetner – Lighthouse Lens Award
Season 1

Carol Runge / Listen All my Children – Web Exclusive Winner
Season 2

He has worked closely with high profile individuals such as Pierre Cardin, Hildi Santo Thomas, and Miley Cyrus.

As a Catholic filmmaker, he aims to tell stories that inspire and reflect a view of Christ’s love to all people.He currently resides in Florida and is engaged to the lovely Jaclyn Mosing.

Gregory D. Goyins
WRITER/DIRECTOR
Gregory D. Goyins is currently a MFA Candidate at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at
Chapman University in Orange, California where he is the only student in the school’s history to
move from being a first year undergraduate directly to the Conservatory program.
Mr. Goyins is the recipient of both the John Turp Scholarship for Outstanding Writing in the
Humanities and the prestigious Hale Art Singer Foundation Writing Scholarship. Two of his latest
short stories, Sun, Moon, Truth and Autumn have been published in the quarterly literary journal,
Sanctuary!
His screenplays have garnered a number of awards from the international film community and the
adaptation of Raymond Carver’s “After The Denim”, starring Tom Bower (Crazy Heart, Nixon) and
Karen Landry (Peaceful Warrior) marks his directorial debut.
Mr. Goyins has recently completed his first feature length screenplay and is in pre-production on
his second film, “The Conversation” based on his own award winning work.

Emmett Loverde is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Berkeley, California and received a degree in Theater from UCLA. He has written extensively for stage, screen, television, and radio. Over 150 separate productions of his stage plays have been mounted worldwide to date.

Films written, produced, and directed by Mr. Loverde include the comedy shorts “A Timely Maneuver”, “Snacking”, “The Truth About Me”, and “Cranky Call”; the feature “Santa’s Letters”; and several music videos. His second feature “Till You Get to Baraboo” stars Jennifer Siebel Newsom (TV’s “Life” and “Mad Men”) and Amanda Noret (TV’s “Veronica Mars”) and will debut worldwide July 2011 at the Action On Film International Film Festival in Pasadena, California. His work has appeared in various film festivals including the Burbank International Children’s Film Festival, the Poppy Jasper Film Festival, the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, and the Bare Bones Film Festival.

Mr. Loverde’s stage comedies include “A Timely Maneuver”; “Beauty, Brains, and Personality”; “Good Business Sense”; “Jesus Awakens the Little Girl”; “The Killist”; “The Maginot Line”; “Peace and Quiet”; “Play How You Play”; “Love Fax”; “Sensitivity, USA”; “Santa’s Letters”; “So Much Snow”; and “Uneasy Overture”.

Many of Mr. Loverde’s titles are currently in publication by Heuer Publishing (HitPlays.com) and Playscripts, Inc. (playscripts.com) or are available through Amazon.com.

Christopher Estrada, Co-Director

Christopher Estrada is a graduate of the Screenwriting and Cinema and Television Arts program at California State University, Northridge. He is also an accomplished actor and stage director. Recent stage directing credits include “Never Mind What Happened…How Did It End?” for the Awakenings Theater Ensemble in Burbank, California.

JANICE VLLAROSA – PAGTUO (FAITH) was inspired by her brother’s own struggle with cancer.  When he was diagnosed, the doctor said if it was not treated he only had 2-3 months to live.  He went through the surgery and aggressive chemotherapy but there were still problems.  Through the power of prayers from his family, friends, the church, and even the youth whom he ministers, he survived.   Pagtuo is the second film that Janice directed while being in film school for only two and a half months. Most recently, in a span of one year and a half years, she has been involved in approximately forty productions as Producer, Director, Assistant Director, Unit Production Manager, Production Designer, Editor, Casting Director, Acting Coach, and as an Actress.  A highly motivated individual, in six weeks she produced nine short films.  She is currently working on post-production for a short film which she directed and produced and is in pre-production for a documentary feature film which she is also directing and producing.   “Although I like doing films in different genres, I believe my path lies in doing films that deals with social issues.  If this film could just bring hope to at least one person, I’m happy.”

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Sal has been involved in filmmaking for over thirty years. He has written directed, produced and edited independent shorts, documentaries, commercials, industrials, music videos and has written two feature-length screenplays (Crossroads, Seasonal Passages.) His expertise includes development at all stages of pre-production, production and post-production.

Sal has dedicated twenty six years in education as Director of Film and Animation, at the School of Visual Arts, helping the chairman of the department create and restructure the film and animation program, including revising curriculum, restructuring the program, and creating state of the art facilities in helping to establish SVA as one of the leading film schools in the world.

He has initiated two international studies abroad programs, one in Italy and the other in France and has created many master workshops/lectures with some of the leading filmmakers in cinema today; including: Gordon Willis, Bryan Singer, Anastos Michos, Chris Newman, Alan Heim, Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Benoit Jacquot, Claire Denis to name a few. His documentary film “They Used to Call it South Brooklyn” exposed a dark side of gentrification in Brooklyn.

Sal lives and works in New York City and continues as not only the Director of Film Operations and Animation but teaches Filmmaking classes at School of Visual Arts in New York to full-time day, continuing education and pre-college students.

Sal recently wrote and directed a short film adapted from his feature screenplay, Crossroads which had its New York premiere, November ’09 and won the People Choice Award at the Re-Image film festival and received three nominations, (outstanding short film, direction and cinematography at the Staten Island Film Festival.

With a BA and MFA in Motion Picture Production from UCLA Film School, Michelle Shelfer created three award winning fine art animation films back in the 80′s that screened at festivals worldwide, including FILMEX, Lille Animation Festival, Barcelona, Hong Kong and Virgin Islands International Film Festivals, among others. She worked in special effects in Hollywood, then migrated to the “edu-tainment” industry, working for such companies as Broderbund, Intellitools, Electronic Arts and ToeJam and Earl.

Active in other areas of the arts, Michelle was a California Arts Council fellow from 1983-86, as San Francisco’s first in-hospital roving troubadour, singing at bedside to cancer, pediatrics and other patients. Michelle has also been honored for her poetry, is a published poet and has taught with California Poets in the Schools. She is a recording artist and composer, and is currently active in various musical worship settings around the San Francisco Bay Area.

After years of hiatus from production to raise a family and become a grandma of five, she returned to her original medium of animation to make “Broken”. This film has been honored to be a festival opener at the Kingdomwood Film Festival, a Best Animation Nominee at Phoenix Int’l FF, a Second Place Winner at Bayou City FF, and a finalist at Transforming Stories FF in Johannesburg, SA. Shelfer is presently undertaking a film project documenting her 92 year old mother’s imminent return to Vienna after fleeing there from the Nazis in 1938.

Steve Brio

Steve Brio’s film Hero is a semi-autobiographical picture of his own life. Fire Captain/Paramedic in the city of Anaheim for 22 years, Brio is no stranger to tragedy. His life displays the characteristics of compassion, kindheartedness, and courage that Hero promotes. Hero is screenwriter, actor, and executive producer Steve Brio’s first written film, but it certainly will not be his last. As an actor, Brio has been seen in commercials, television, movie and stage productions. While studying acting at The Performer’s Academy in Orange County, CA he met multiple award winning director Brent Huff and award winning Producer/Actor Zac Titus. The three became fast friends and Hero went from a dream to an award-winning reality. With Hero winning the International Family Film Festival’s award for Best Short Drama, Brio has already begun to make his mark on Hollywood and Hero is connecting with audiences in every venue it plays.

Episode 11 :5000

Son of an architect and a translator, Luis Carlos Alvarez was born on March 7, 1980 in Bogotá, Colombia. At a young age his parents took him to see his first film The Never Ending Story directed by Wolfgang Petersen and from that moment he developed a strong fascination for filmmaking. He took his first workshop in Cinema History at the age of 15 in Universidad Nacional.

In 1997 he graduated from high school and moved to Bucaramanga with his mother and two younger brothers. He enrolled in the School of Journalism and Social Communication in Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, where he met his first big influence when he signed up for a workshop in Documentary with the famous Colombian director Victor Gaviria.

In 2001 his family was threatened by the guerrilla and filed for political asylum in the United States. Relocated in Annapolis, Maryland, he worked as an interpreter and did many different jobs until he had the chance to resume his studies. In 2004 he moved to New York and completed a Film Directing Program in The New York Film Academy.

In 2006 he directed his short titled 5000, which tells the story of a Colombian journalist kidnapped by the guerilla. He currently works as a freelance filmmaker in New York and Maryland.

http://www.luiscarlosalvarez.com

Along with his work on stage and screen Jason has developed, produced and acted in two of his own film projects – a multi-media stage/film adaptation of Donald Miller’s New York Times best-selling memoir Blue Like Jazz // Live and the multi-award winning short film The Prodigal Trilogy.

The Prodigal Trilogy has won top honors at six film festivals across North America, both faith-based and mainstream, and screened in more than 20 countries around the world. Jason is thrilled to hear stories of people experiencing the love of a Father for the first time through watching the film.

Jason recently directed a series of trailers for a visionary new social justice movement called Millennium Kids – www.millenniumkids.ca.

He is currently in pre-production on his new film Kingdom of Herod. Release date: Christmas 2011.

For more info about Jason or to purchase a copy of The Prodigal Trilogy please see: www.jasonhildebrand.com.