All filmmakers hope their work will have a lasting impact on audiences, but one powerful, eye-opening documentary in particular has had a significant impact on U.S. legislation since airing on Showtime last year. Kate Logan’s “Kidnapped for Christ” has become a valuable tool in pushing state-wide regulation in California of reform camps established to “fix” gay teens, and executive producer Mike C. Manning has been crucial to that educational effort, having continued to crusade for nationwide regulation as well. Manning became involved in “Kidnapped for Christ” after a conversation with one of its protagonists, a childhood friend. “So...
- 5/13/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
- 8/7/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
News
TV Guide reports that Gina Gershon has booked a guest role on Elementary. She’ll play a socialite Joan is determined to prove is running a drug cartel.
BBC America has ordered a third season of Orphan Black. The ten episode season will air in the spring of 2015. I think the proper reaction is:
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Meanwhile, BBC America announced a new original drama. Based on Bernard Cornwell‘s Saxon Stories novels, the series is set in the lands that will eventually become England during the time that it was being raided by vikings. The story focuses on a Saxon who was kidnapped and raised by Vikings, leading to him feeling with divided loyalties.
Stevie Nicks has joined the upcoming season of The Voice as a mentor. She’ll be advising Adam Levine‘s team.
Sherlock creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat inserted a secret message into the U.S.
TV Guide reports that Gina Gershon has booked a guest role on Elementary. She’ll play a socialite Joan is determined to prove is running a drug cartel.
BBC America has ordered a third season of Orphan Black. The ten episode season will air in the spring of 2015. I think the proper reaction is:
source
Meanwhile, BBC America announced a new original drama. Based on Bernard Cornwell‘s Saxon Stories novels, the series is set in the lands that will eventually become England during the time that it was being raided by vikings. The story focuses on a Saxon who was kidnapped and raised by Vikings, leading to him feeling with divided loyalties.
Stevie Nicks has joined the upcoming season of The Voice as a mentor. She’ll be advising Adam Levine‘s team.
Sherlock creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat inserted a secret message into the U.S.
- 7/10/2014
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
Showtime will premiere the documentary “Kidnapped for Christ,” which counts Lance Bass among its executive producers, on July 10 at 7:30 p.m., Showtime said Thursday. Also read: ‘N Sync Alum Lance Bass Joins ‘Kidnapped for Christ’ Doc as Executive Producer The documentary — which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at Slamdance this year — revolves around Escuela Caribe, a controversial Christian behavior modification program in the Dominican Republic for “troubled” U.S. teenagers. Evangelical filmmaker Kate Logan initially hoped to document the positive effects that a boarding school such as Escuela Caribe could have on troubled youth. However, after being granted.
- 6/19/2014
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
QFest St. Louis which begins this weekend, will screen the documentary Kidnapped For Christ at 7:30pm Monday April 28th.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, Mo)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
Kidnapped For Christ screens at 7:30pm Monday April 28th
The troubled-teen industry is a billion-dollar, worldwide business enterprise in dozens of countries. Kidnapped For Christ tells the shocking stories of American teenagers who were taken from their homes and shipped to Escuela Caribe, an American-run Christian behavior-modification program in the Dominican Republic.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, Mo)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
Kidnapped For Christ screens at 7:30pm Monday April 28th
The troubled-teen industry is a billion-dollar, worldwide business enterprise in dozens of countries. Kidnapped For Christ tells the shocking stories of American teenagers who were taken from their homes and shipped to Escuela Caribe, an American-run Christian behavior-modification program in the Dominican Republic.
- 4/25/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kate Logan's Kidnapped for Christ is a documentary in the same vein as Jesus Camp, indicting an evangelical cult's brainwashing of children. On the surface, the atmosphere at Escuela Caribe -- the Dominican Republic boarding school where "troubled" teens were sent for religious rehabilitation from 1972 until its closing in 2011 -- may seem less nightmarish than, say, Jesus Camp's assembly of youngsters in war paint, chanting about the bravery of jihadists. But Kidnapped turns out to be more disturbing because it is not, at its outset, a polemic. Logan, 28, who began filming at Escuela Caribe in 2006, is just as naïve to the school's ritualistic horrors as we are, and just as shocked to disc...
- 1/22/2014
- Village Voice
Making a documentary about religion can be a tightrope walk. While there is frequently much to criticize within religious communities and cultures, the trick is investigating these issues without belittling the subjects’ beliefs; when done poorly, films like Bill Maher’s Religulous come off as nothing more than ill-informed and ridiculous themselves. Now Kate Logan, a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker with an evangelical background herself, is entering that arena with her first feature, Kidnapped for Christ, which plays at Slamdance this week. The film joins others like last year’s God Loves Uganda and 2010′s Sons of Perdition in looking closely at […]...
- 1/16/2014
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Making a documentary about religion can be a tightrope walk. While there is frequently much to criticize within religious communities and cultures, the trick is investigating these issues without belittling the subjects’ beliefs; when done poorly, films like Bill Maher’s Religulous come off as nothing more than ill-informed and ridiculous themselves. Now Kate Logan, a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker with an evangelical background herself, is entering that arena with her first feature, Kidnapped for Christ, which plays at Slamdance this week. The film joins others like last year’s God Loves Uganda and 2010′s Sons of Perdition in looking closely at […]...
- 1/16/2014
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Among the titles recently announced for the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival, Kidnapped For Christ is the one I’m most anxious to see. It’s a documentary about an Evangelical Christian school in the Dominican Republic where gay teens are sent to be reformed through behavior modification programming. That’s not anything we haven’t heard of before, and such places were even played for comedy in the ’90s indie flick But I’m a Cheerleader. The thing about that movie, though, is that it seems dated. Apparently not, at least as far as attempts to “cure” homosexuality are concerned. Kidnapped For Christ reminds me of Jesus Camp, the idea of religious brainwashing being a main theme, yet in this film the kids are older and more consciously forced against their will. The place in Jesus Camp isn’t necessarily bad (though many viewers see it that way), but the school in this new doc definitely is. That...
- 12/7/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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