'Evening of Angelus' returns to Park City, Utah during Sundance

January 11, 2008

The Angelus Student Film Festival will go on the road again this year with the first stop being the fourth annual Windrider Forum, intersecting faith and film, Jan. 21 during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and subsequent stops later in the year at Rome and Florence, Italy and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

The "Evening of Angelus," which has been part of the Windrider Forum since its inception in 2005, will feature the screening of two winning films from the 2007 Angelus Student Film Festival, and the discussion of those films between their directors and the forum audience. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Mountain Vineyard, Park City. The two films to be screened and discussed with their filmmakers are:

The Little Gorilla by Harry Kellerman, Columbia University, New York, the Angelus Priddy Brothers' Triumph Award winner.

Deacon's Mondays by Lowell Frank and Destin Daniel Cretton, San Diego State University, Angelus Fujifilm Audience Impact Award winner.


Family Theater Productions created the Angelus Student Film Festival in 1996 to cultivate and honor future filmmakers as they explore and create works that respect the dignity of the human person. Angelus winning films reflect values such as redemption, spirituality, dignity, tolerance, equality, diversity, hope and the triumph of the human spirit.

This faith and film forum is for theological graduate students and undergraduate film students from several Christian colleges. It will be held Jan. 21-27, during the second week of the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance is considered the premier showcase for American and international independent films.

Windrider is sponsored by Priddy Brothers, which was instrumental in creating the forum, with partners Biola University, La Mirada, Calif.; the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif.; and Taylor University, Fort Wayne and Upland, Ind.; Angelus Awards/ Family Theater Productions; and Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Park City. The Angelus night is an opportunity for Windrider Forum and Sundance participants to view and discuss the winning Angelus award-winning films with the filmmakers and to bring members of Park City churches together with the students and other filmmakers and participants of Sundance.

On Saturday, Jan. 26, forum participants will screen the HBO documentary To Die in Jerusalem, and discuss the film with its director, 2004 Angelus documentary winner Hilla Medalia of Southern Illinois University.