With so many things going on at Cloud Ten Pictures, it is honestly tough to keep everyone informed of all the things taking place.

Have you heard of the KINGDOMWOOD Christian Film Festival (KCFF)?  If you haven’t you should really take note!

This is their second year running the festival and what a festival it looks to be!

Here is the scoop: The KCFF is October 1st – 3rd, 2009 near Atlanta, GA.  It is a 3-day faith-based film festival whose mission is to provide a forum for independent filmmakers to screen films that promote and inspire Christian teaching and values.

The festival will screen full features, shorts and documentaries as well as provide workshops and symposiums that will offer insight and analysis of industry trends in faith-based filmmaking and production.

KCFF seeks to create an environment of trust and receptiveness for families and individuals searching for films that speak to their inner spiritual voice, while providing a platform for filmmakers wishing to express their spiritual vision on film.

Ultimately they seek to: “Reach – Teach – Inspire, The Next Generation”

There are many great films, shorts and documentaries that will be playing at KCFF this year.  Among them are some that I have personally enjoyed or been blessed by including the documentary THE HEART OF TEXAS, and the feature film FIND ME.

But of course I have to beam when I tell you that Cloud Ten Pictures film WATERPROOF starring Burt Reynolds will be showing as the closing feature at the festival on Saturday night.

The Story Behind WATERPROOF

As a kid growing up in a Jewish family in the suburbs of 1960s Washington, D.C., writer/director Barry Berman never understood why he was instructed to lock the car doors whenever they drove into the city.

“There was this animosity, or a difficulty between blacks and Jews that I didn’t understand as a kid. It didn’t make any sense to me. As I grew up, I understood why it made sense to others, or why others had made it make sense in their head, but to me, it still made no sense.” -Barry Berman

It was this observation that planted the seed for the drama WATERPROOF. The idea began with the premise of putting an African American and a man of Jewish faith together, assuming they both were good people, both had their individual problems, and both were ultimately reliant on one another for a better life in some way.

Berman took this premise and created his central characters: Eli Zeal (a lonely and bitter elderly Jewish shopkeeper played by Burt Reynolds) and Tyree Battle (a hardened single black mother who drives a cab in Washington, D.C., played by April Grace).

If you are in the Atlanta area, don’t miss this great festival and of course the showing of WATERPROOF!  Support Christian media by attending!

Your friend and blogger… Eric