Film Festival Live: And the Winners are:
John Moore, 19 — a true rebelutionary — accepts the $101,000 Best of Festival grand prize at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival tonight. His feature-length film The Widow’s Might beat out well-known titles like Fireproof and Ben Stein’s Expelled.
Results released five minutes ago:
Best Trailer Award: Changing Lives
Young Filmmakers Award: A Journey of Hope
Best Treatment: Sand Town
Best Creation Film Award: Noah’s Ark
Best Biblical Family Film Award: Binding Faith
Best Film Short Award: Prodigal Trilogy
Best Original Film Score Award: The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry
Audience Choice Award: The Widow’s Might
Best Documentary Award: The Terry Schiavo Story
Best Feature Film Award: Fireproof
Best of Festival Award: The Widow’s Might
That’s a wrap of the festival everyone. God Bless,
Isaac Harris
January 10th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Kevin’s treatment was called “Sand Town.”
January 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Go John! Woohoo! =D
January 10th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Isaac, thanks so much for this updating - I so appreciate it! It was a real pleasure following the festival through your writings. And congratulations to all involved in the festival, especially the HeuMoore folks!!!
January 10th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
:applauds: Right on! Can’t wait to see all of these! I’m really excited!
Great job on keeping us updated Isaac! I’m excited to see what God has in store for you after experiencing and learning all of that. =] Keep it up!
January 10th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I’m so excited for John and can’t wait to see his movie!!
January 10th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Great job Isaac!! Thank-you so much for all your time and hard work in keeping us abreast of all the goings on at the Academy and the Festival!!! I’m impressed!!
Hope to her from you again next year!:)
January 10th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you for keeping us updated on the festival, it’s almost as good as being there!
January 10th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
The Widow’s Might was my favoret film of the whole festival, it has a great story and great music.
In all, I think it was an increadible festival.
It was nice meeting you Isaac, I hope to see you next year.
January 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Thanks so much for investing the time and effort to live blog the festival, Isaac! I really enjoyed keeping up with it, and eagerly anticipated each new post. It’s the next best thing to actually being there.
January 10th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Congrats, John!
January 10th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Wow! Widow’s Might! That’s great!!
January 10th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I was there!!! [Rather, I am here.] Absolutely phenomenal. The experience has been electrifying. Thanks to you, Isaac, for sharing the moment for all those who could not be here. :]
John! Who would have thought?!?!?! God, of course.
You are amazing.
January 10th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Thanks so much for keeping us updated on the festival…
Wish I could have been there:)
January 11th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Isaac,
Thank you brother! You and your brothers are an inspiration to all the guys back at HeuMoore. We’re honored to have you as friends, and are constantly grateful to the Lord that when we’re asked, “How did you do this at only 19 years old?”, We have the pleasure of pointing them straight to the Rebelution and the Rebelutionaries who have exemplified the command, ‘Do Hard Things’. Thank you for the example and the encouragement!!
Can’t wait to talk again!!
~ In Christ, John.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Oh John!!! That was really neat! No, more than neat! I think it’s awesome and fantastic that you won the award! Congratulations and more movies for HeuMoore!
January 11th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Isaac,
Thank you very much for all your posts. We, who were not able to attend the festival, could not be grateful enough for your updates. You made us experience the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival! It’s like we were there too and seeing everything you were seeing.
Thanks and God bless!
January 11th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Yay! That is so amazing! Congratulations, John!!!
January 11th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Congratulations to all the winners - especially John!
And thank you for the coverage!
January 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Congratulations John! How very exciting!
Great Job with the blog posts Isaac
January 11th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Congratulations John!
January 11th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Issac, I’ve really enjoyed reading your very detailed notes about the Acadamy and the Film festival. We are just getting started in short film making at my church youth group and I’m looking forward to exploring the entire realm, and am furtner stimulated by your posts.
January 11th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
How Cool Congrats John!!!
January 11th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Congratulations John! I’ve been at the festival since Thursday, my sister and I watched The Widow’s Might on Friday, and loved it so much we saw it again on Saturday! May God bless you and your family and all those involved in the project!
Thank you Isaac for updating!
January 11th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for giving those of us who couldn’t be there a little glimpse!
January 12th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Congratulations John!
May you continue to use your gifts for His glory
January 12th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Thanks for blogging this, Isaac- I’ve really enjoyed hearing about everything going on there. Do you know if Advent Film Group’s new film Come What May was in the festival or not? I know it’s their first movie, but I thought from talking with Mr. Escobar, who runs the company, that they hoped to enter it in the festival.
Also, how can people who were not at the festival get a copy of The Widow’s Might? Is there a way to buy it yet?
Thanks and God bless!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
At least ‘Fireproof’ won best feature film.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Whoohoo!!! How totally exciting for John Moore. Congratulations to him.
Did you have a personal favourite, Isaac?
January 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Rebecca: Come What May was not entered in the festival because many of the donors for Come What May are donors to the festival, so if it did well, it would look like favoritism.
Widows Might can be found on behemoth.com/festival
January 15th, 2009 at 8:56 am
woot woot!
congrats John!
January 15th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Thanks Isaac! I talked to Mr. Escobar’s son also, and he said the same thing about Come What May
January 17th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Great job, John! That’s exciting! Praise God!
February 4th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival was, once again, amazing, and HueMoore took the Audience Choice award (which they also got last year with ‘Heartstrings’) and the Best of Festival Award with their amazing film ‘The Widows Might’. It’s very impressive what God can do through we, the flawed people, which allow Him to.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Cool
March 15th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Congratulations on your achievements. I saw Fireproof last night and loved it. Keep it up!