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00:00:04 Travis
This is Travis Pander with Crawford Media Group and I have a real treat for you listeners today on the line with me are two gentlemen who just made a movie. I got to watch this movie last night and there wasn’t a dry eye on my couch. It was absolutely amazing. Tour de Force and I worked for God. That producer Lance Clark and writer, director Matt Webb with me on the show. How are you guys?
00:00:24 Speaker 1
Doing great. Thanks. Thanks for.
00:00:26 Travis
Awesome. Well, let’s start out. Tell us a little bit about the movie. What’s what’s?
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The plot. Yeah. Well, it’s based on a true story about actually, Lance is his family life.
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Growing up, it’s it’s.
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About a pastor and his.
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Family in rural Michigan in 1970s and.
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They are tasked.
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With bringing 4 individual churches together under one roof and they have zero money and the day before construction is supposed to start, they lose their contractor to a heart attack.
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And they don’t really know what to do, but.
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Into the bean field where they are building.
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Other church rolls this old jalopy and out pops Glenn Frank, who’s a a washed up country singer but also a also a licensed Carpenter. And he.
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Offers to help and.
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He’s sort of notorious around town and they decide to bring him on anyway and so the rest of the film follows the journey of.
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Glen and Pastor Doyle and his family and the church community as they all work together to try to do this project, but also really learn and grow from one another, bring forgiveness, redemption.
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Healing and hope to everybody involved and yeah, yeah, that’s the that is the movie.
00:01:42 Travis
What a great message too. I mean, we, we live in a world where Christians are are marked and and a lot of assumptions are made, but that that grace that that Glenn Frank was given to to do his God-given talent I thought was super impactful.
00:01:55 Travis
Loved.
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And Jeff Dorman did just a phenomenal job he had.
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He is. He is, we are. We are so impressed with that guy. You probably noted it, but he does all the live music in the in the film, he sings and plays. Actually, he actually plays Glenn’s guitar in the movie, like the actual Glens guitar and.
00:02:18 Travis
That’s amazing.
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Yeah. And and he he.
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Did four or five songs for the.
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On track and actually he on his website you can actually buy the soundtrack that includes a whole lot more of his songs that are that are sort of in the in the style of Glenn.
00:02:35 Travis
That’s great that.
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Was one of the questions I wanted to ask you is who who did all of the the score of the music for the for the film it?
00:02:41 Travis
Was really good, super well.
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Of.
00:02:43 Lance
LA, who’s a really great guy, he.
00:02:46 Lance
He caught the vision for the film as well and and scored it and then tied in a lot of what you know, Jeff was trying to do and he had some great ideas. Oh.
00:02:54 Matt
Man, he, he.
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Was he was fantastic. A little shout out to my my brothers, Mike and Brian, they also did the arranging for the and the and the music for the song that the boys.
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Sang. That’s amazing.
00:03:06 Travis
It was it was super impactful. I thought it fits super well and and since the the 1st I’m not going to give away any spoilers for you, but that first scene in the bar I was, I was kind of thinking where’s the?
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Music going I’m a musician myself so.
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It was. It was great. From then on, so I didn’t know that. Lance, you had such a strong connection to the film until the epilogue to it. And now my daughter and I both looked at each other. We were like, holy cow. This is like he grew up in this. So, so.
00:03:33 Speaker 1
Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s.
00:03:35 Lance
Very humbling to have a a story like this about your family and about your life and and see it on the big screen. I have to admit it’s been very humbly met as a as a writer. Director just did a fantastic job of capturing the story so.
00:03:48 Lance
So yeah, it it was.
00:03:49 Lance
Just real humbling to have a film you know told about my childhood and to see it.
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On screen and all that and relive that and just see the power.
00:03:56 Lance
Or of of prayer, it is a movie about the power of prayer, you know, and how a community comes together, but on the opposite side, as a producer of the film.
00:04:06 Lance
To see all our students at Huntington University who got to be a part of this, you know, we’re training the next generation of theaters and Christian storytellers and the power of story, you know, Jesus preached 1 sermon, told what 42 or so stories.
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So much.
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And so, Matt, you want to tell?
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A little bit.
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More about what that’s like for our capstone program.
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Sure. So students in our program as they get to be juniors and seniors, they have the opportunity to be on feature films for the spring of their junior and senior year. And so during production.
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They spent 15 weeks prepping the movie alongside these professionals from all around the country, and then in May, everybody comes together on campus and the students work right alongside these pros. So we’ll bring in a professional director of photography and the entire camera crew will be students. We’ll bring in a professional.
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Wow, our director and then their whole team of students, professional first AD and.
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Their whole team.
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Kind.
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Of.
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Of PAS and keypads and stuff for.
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Our students, so these students.
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Have this amazing opportunity to really carry some wonderful weight and learn all these things and be mentored directly by these pros and a lot of them end up getting jobs in the.
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Industry through these.
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Pros and yeah, it’s a it’s an awesome, awesome opportunity. So we’ve got some students who will be graduating this year.
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So a carbonara is our first.
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This movie we shot patterns, which is our second movie in 2023, and then we are getting ready to shoot our third movie Overhill manner in 2025 and for some of our seniors that will this will be their third feature film as.
00:05:47 Travis
That is amazing and I’m a I’m a product of a of a course, kind of like that in the music industry. I have a special appreciation for it and the the networking especially I think is super important for for folks wanting to get into.
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Creative industries like that were those were any of your students credited on?
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The film all the students are credited on the.
00:06:06 Travis
Film all of every.
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Student is credited on the film and and like I said, many of them get jobs through it and in fact of the pro as we try to bring as many of our own alumni back to be pros on the.
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Yeah. So on the carpenters prayer, our first AD, our gaffer.
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We both of them were, were alumni we had, I think 3 or 4 alumni actors that were on the film and we. And then of course, we have some Huntington faculty from both our Arizona campus and our Indiana campus that were department heads as well. All told, there’s about 20 pros.
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That are on the crew and about 30 students who are on the movie and then and then a cast of, you know, a dozen or so speaking roles close to 20 and the.
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And 100 or more extras so.
00:06:59 Lance
But don’t kid yourself, this is not a student.
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Show and as you saw, saw it’s.
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Very professional. It’s very clean. The look is so beautiful. It’s colored so beautiful. And you know Stephen Baldwin and Bethany and Lynn were on the project. Two of our main act, you know, SAG actors and and Baldwin’s been in like 130.
00:07:16 Lance
Some films and he told us.
00:07:17 Travis
It works, yeah.
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During an interview that we did with him, he said, hey, this is one of the best projects I’ve worked on, you guys, you guys, technically it’s one of the best things I’ve ever worked on. And you said, good job. You guys keep up the good work so that that that spoke spoke a lot to us, you know and.
00:07:33 Travis
Yeah, that’s amazing. And and as I was kind of researching to get ready to to both watch the movie and talk to you gentlemen.
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I was I.
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I think I found that documentary about how you guys formed it and I encourage all of the our Crawford listeners to to go out and look at it. It was an inspiration for sure and and all these, all these students sharing the gospel message as well is just it’s amazing.
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OK.
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Obviously God was on the move through the.
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Movie. So. Ohh yeah. Oh yeah.
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For sure I have a question for you. You mentioned your your the power of prayer being being shown through the movie. Do you still have that little prayer book?
00:08:07 Lance
Lance, you know, I I don’t have that prayer book. I had a mental prayer list in my head during that time. That was actually a A prop that that Matt wrote into the story. As we were talking about.
00:08:19 Lance
You know different. How did the story be to the film and everything? But yeah, I definitely haven’t one. I don’t. I unfortunately, that was that was a that’s a moving business, man, you.
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Know we’re we’re.
00:08:29 Travis
Yeah.
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Well, I mean, it was a great vehicle to show that. I thought it was, it was it.
00:08:31 Lance
Yeah, yeah.
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Was.
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Pretty genius. Ready. So where can folks see this movie? Is it? Is it theaters only or video on?
00:08:38 Lance
Demand. Yeah, right now it’s in theaters across the.
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Country 21.
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67 theaters more growing as we as we get along, we just picked up another theater yesterday in Decatur IN carpenters, prayer.com, a carpenters prayer.com. Click on the little theaters link and you can see all the theaters list. There’s also a link to demand.
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Ended.
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It you can.
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Hey, we really want to.
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Hear. And then in September sometime in September.
00:09:02 Lance
Coming up on up faith and family, which is a subscription video on demand opportunity and they eventually head off into the other opportunities of Amazon and.
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Yep, later in the fall, you’ll see.
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It on Dish you’ll also see it.
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On Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and yeah, you.
00:09:18 Lance
All the transactional.
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Know options, yeah.
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The places where you can buy.
00:09:21 Travis
Well, I’m excited to get that in other people’s hands and I encourage all the coffee listeners.
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Go out to.
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That carpenters, prayer.com and click that demand link and demand it in your theater. Guys, it was a pleasure to watch your movie and.
00:09:35 Travis
And the labor of love, I could tell it was wonderful and I encourage everybody to to take a look at this as soon as you get the chance. Any closing words?
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From Lance and Matt.
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We’re just really grateful for the opportunity to to be able to share this story that was inspiring to so many people, you know, 45 years ago and 50 years ago.
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And and continues to inspire today. You know, Glenn had no idea the impact he was going to make in his life on the clerks and on the families of Frontier, Michigan and had absolutely no idea no one knew that 50 years later his life and the life of that church would continue to impact.
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Around the world.
00:10:15 Travis
Yeah, that’s amazing.
00:10:16 Lance
It’s it’s a family friendly film. We’ve had children as young as seven years old in the theater and they’re.
00:10:21 Lance
Really tuned into it so.
00:10:24 Travis
Yeah, my 15 year old daughter was all over it.
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I was surprised. She she was.
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Yeah, that.
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Like into and into it.
00:10:28 Lance
We’ve seen that over and.
00:10:29 Lance
Over again, you wouldn’t think so, but they they, there’s something about the film that it that is very attractive to families and to it’s not cheesy.
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It’s it’s worth your time. You’re gonna be.
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Inspired and you feel.
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Better after you watch this film. Yes. Yeah, yeah.
00:10:43 Travis
I can attest to that.
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So quick check it out.
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As soon as you get a chance again, this is Lance Clark and Matt Webb with.
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Us.
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With Crawford Media Group, I’m Travis Pander.
