it will cost $4.99 USD...so have your paypal or amazon account ready
2) where you see the embedded video player, click on it 3) watch the trailer for free 4) simply follow the directions on the player to either a) paypal/credit card b) amazon account
Then you will have plenty of time: a full 30 days to watch. There are 2 epic films-- one a quite long documentary about my journey following revival glory and failure and the return of Todd Bentley.
The second film is a 30 minute series of interviews on the beginning days of the outpouring. This includes interviews with Bob Jones, Rick Joyner, Todd Bentley, Jermey Lippe, Heather Clark, Sharnael Wolverton. Basically it covers how the explosion of The Presence happened through an angel visiting Todd, and how that affected everybody else.
Here's a taster of my film, entitled Lakeland. It's a 52 minute documentary on The Lakeland Florida outpouring and the ministry of Todd Bentley. The Lakeland phenomenon began in April 2008, when an outbreak of the Holy Spirit began, and soon the entire charismatic Christian world was involved.
There were lots of reports of healing, visitations, miracles and other stuff you get during a revival.
Tens of thousands of people visited the revival in Lakeland, in a short burst of time -- the outpouring lasted about 90 days, before it dissipated. Many feel this was due to the sin in Todd's life, as he announced a divorce from his wife and was soon re-married to a former intern of his.
Filming took place in spurts from July 2008 to February of 2010. We had several delays and setbacks in the editing process, but the film is being mixed now.
We are planning several films to come out of this project, but this is the main one, and TVF International serve as our Sales Agents, and they are awesome, patient folks.
As the whole subject of revival, in particular Todd, carries with it a lot of controversy, I just wanted to state a few obvious points, which may or may not disappoint you depending on which tribe or belief system you come from:
1) This is not a miracle-driven testimonial film on how powerful the Florida Outpouring was or is. Sorry for this, really, I would have loved to have interviewed more people who experienced healing or salvation at the outpouring. While we do talk to people affected by the ministry there, the film is more of a journey through the revival.
2) The Film is not an expose or judgement of Todd, or his personal life, although obviously his life is touched upon, from the collapse of the Revival, and his restoration process. Personally, I believe Todd's still a genuine preacher/teacher/miracle worker and I have done my utmost not to dishonor the guy. (Although some feel differently in their review of the film).
3) Throughout the film we attempted to show all sides to the story, and to be more fair and balanced by Fox News- so therefore protestors and nay-sayers of charismatic life are included. As the protestors are part of the Body of Christ too, I just don't always agree with the ways the protest is expressed.
Why is it that in the Bible, Angels are massive, supernatural and mysterious beings with world-enhancing assignments, yet also can be confused for mere human beings who just want to hang out and eat a meal?
One dude I know studies Angels all the time, and dreams up ways that we
can attract angels: the more we worship God, we become magnets for
them.
Obviously there's a hierarchy of messengers somewhere, between here and Heaven. There's no shortage of Angels in all religions and philosophies (except for Aetheism, of course). There are angels in Islam, Judaism and Christianity. There are Deepak Chopra angels (they bring humans good skin care product), Mormon angels, Scientology angels.
Angels can be twelve-miles high or small enough to fit into your laptop case, like sprites. I've heard of and angelic sightings from a friend who was in an elevator lift, she claimed one was wearing a tennis outfit and stood about 8 feet tall.
How come, though, when it comes to filmic representations of Angels, most are seen appearing as Fashion models sporting a perfect 3-day beard growth, and maybe a british accent?
They look more like Derek Zoolander's flat-mates. New category: Zoolander Angels.
Here's an interview I did for Canadian Journalist and blogger Rick Hiebert. It's about my upcoming Lakeland documentary.
It's really good to dialogue with believers that may not agree with me, or with the charismatic move of God: too many times we just blog or youtube at each other without any fruit. Maybe the film & the interview will help that.
I have not been blogging. I've been facebooking, tumblr'ing, tweeting. But no updates to Free Donuts in the longest time.
Here are my top three excuses.
1) I've joined a GTD cult and I am only permitted to write on paper napkins, iCal or fidgety apps. And since Typepad does not do lists very well, there ya go.
2) I've been too busy working on this Todd Bentley Outpouring film (tentatively titled The Five Fingers of Glory, but that could change) and have been so caught up to the Third Heaven I haven't had time or inclination to blog.
3) Listening to obscure Genesis tracks on Spotify is so much more fun than blogging is.
That's right, for a short period of time in the late 90's, Gary Busey was my hero.
Gary visited CBN and the 700 Club, and braved the hotseat being interviewed by P.Ro (Pat Robertson, as my friend Adele calls him). This was 1997, a time when we thought the Free Donut Revolution was going to happen, and we'd change the way christian television was going to be forever.
And if Gary Busey was in charge, the Revolution would have been televised. And there would have been plenty of donuts for everybody. Telethons sponsored by Krispy Kreme, coffee donated by Dunkin Donuts.
Busey took over the whole show for an hour. He took over the interview, talked about his faith in God and how he survived the claws of Death multiple times. Gary even hijacked the newscast from the arch conservative Lee Webb, and chaos ensued.
I was like, "Wow, some life in this tired old format-- let's get him as a regular co-host, instead of all these ex-Miss America's we normally have!"
But nooooooo. No way to get past the suits at the beurocracy, no way to build a new empire, the matrix was just too deep.
Unfortunately, Gary is now trapped in a 52 year lease that some jokester Leprachaun tricked him into. He's living in North Hollywood with Kris Kristofferson and some other washed up dude. Here's the scoop from YouTube.
Thanks to my friend and colleague Philip Taylor for his editing flair and patience, our latest effort has been polished and completed.
The Sacred Council is a fifteen minute comedy documentary on the lives of misfits that have been taken over by mysterious Sock Puppets. We've got a fantastic cast of improv actors, a great soundtrack from Albert Chon Carter. It all seems to flow really well, considering we devised and shot it over a weekend.
This is a short film we finished about a year ago, and since P the Clown and his arch nemesis Bastille are vital conduits in the Free Donuts Revolutionary network, I thought I'd post it here.
The Save the Cat pitch: Two Clowns find a dark basement, and a portal leading to God Knows Where.
Music, of course, by Albert Chon Carter. If you listen closely, you'll hear a wide assortment of prayer and petitioning during the final moments of the piece. It is as if P and Bastille are requesting for more clowns to be sent to this earth.
My question is: should God allow this prayer to be answered in the affirmative? Are clowns that bad?
This is a film I and the mighty Ian T. Cowell produced a few years back: a bunch of unsuspecting suspected terrorists are attacked by a bunch of self-appointed anti-terror warriors. See what happens when we take justice into our own hands?
