Sight & Sound theater launches Christian film studio

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania — The ministry Sight & Seem, which has used a long time furnishing biblically-based mostly amusement at performance theaters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Branson, Missouri, is growing its entertainment portfolio by producing written content for the silver screen.

In the course of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the ministry released the streaming support Sight & Audio Tv. This enables individuals from around 100 countries to check out a dwell functionality of “Queen Esther” just about. Following God’s main, the firm felt compelled to develop 1-of-a-kind Christian films for the world to see.

As Sight & Seem President and Chief Tale Officer Joshua Enck claimed in a video printed Friday, Sight & Audio Films will just take their passion for storytelling from the big stage to the big display screen with true stories about historical figures and events that “changed the planet because Christ very first changed them.” 

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Sight & Sound’s Director Of Marketing and advertising & Communications Katie Miller, granddaughter of company founder Glenn Eshelman, spoke with The Christian Write-up about how the new movie studio arrived about. 

“[My grandfather] is truly seriously energized,” Miller explained. “It felt like such a massive enterprise coming out of these a tough time and we just come to feel very grateful, and he does way too, that we ended up able to [do this].”

The firm began speaking about a prospective undertaking into movies appropriate before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Even though they felt it was the direction the Lord was getting them, they experienced no strategy how they have been going to get there.

“When we to start with posed the thought, the queries really were being close to how are we likely to do this, not really should we? And then when COVID strike, it felt like it was heading to be this thing that was like, ‘OK, perhaps sometime we would, most likely many years down the highway,'” Miller explained. 

“It felt like the Lord just permitted that year to not only give us the area to venture into feature movies but truly sped it up, a little something that we seriously believed was going to sluggish us down,” she additional. “That grew to become just this sort of an answer to prayer and just genuinely felt like God’s faithfulness all through the entire scenario.” 

Eshelman constantly experienced a really like of the phase and multimedia, as very well as the mixing of the two. He initially started out his productions as a slideshow for church buildings in 1976. Just after years of traveling undertaking that, he opened a theater. 

A decade immediately after that, Sight & Audio began their immersive expertise working with reside animals and accomplishing on a 300-foot panoramic phase. Now, they have built their movie studio upcoming to the iconic theater in Lancaster.

“I believe it feels really exclusive to have the future technology of storytellers finding up the mantle and getting it to the subsequent stage,” Miller informed CP.

“We are so passionate about the tales that we have the chance to inform and the messages within just them. So if we were being going to do it and stage into some thing like films, we wanted to be capable to do it at the exact same high quality amount that anyone understands of us previously when it comes to our stage shows.” 

All Sight & Sound productions characteristic authentic articles influenced by biblical narratives observed in Scripture. With their loyal group on spot, they could use these similar gifts and talents in a distinct medium to notify the tales of a variety of heroes of the faith that are not stated in the Bible.

“When it arrives to the theater facet, Bible tales are what we are named to do there. And at the exact time, we started off to come to feel this stirring for other stories that we know are out there with just as powerful messages of religion,” Miller pointed out.

“And so the problem truly turned, how do we get started to notify all those stories? And film is what rose to the top rated,” she recalled. “So it is partially for us about a different medium but it also opens the door to a full host of distinctive stories much too, all continue to with a biblical basis, and inspirational stories of faith is what we are hoping to be capable to go on to portray.”

With limitless possibilities, Sight & Seem seeks to go on furnishing inspiring content for the faith audiences now in a larger sized capability. 

Miller explained their aim as to convey to “Real stories about historic figures who adjusted the earth due to the fact Christ very first altered them.” According to Miller, “Which is definitely the coronary heart of why we want to do this and why we’re psyched about what is to come.” 

“It really is overpowering when you check out a new issue, you see the end street of in which you know you want to go and the path won’t often really feel tremendous obvious,” she concluded. 

But now as the items have occur alongside one another, Miller concluded by indicating: “This is all turning out to be so good. So it can be exciting and it is also nerve-racking. You will find a lot of unknowns still to come but we are psyched to get began.”

On Friday, Sight & Seem Movies unveiled the trailer for their debut aspect, “I Heard the Bells.” The film is scheduled for release in motion picture theaters this December.

“Recognized as America’s Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow leads an idyllic existence ­– right until the working day his earth is shattered by tragedy. With a nation divided by Civil War and his loved ones torn apart, Henry puts down his pen, silenced by grief. But it is really the seem of Christmas early morning that reignites the poet’s dropped voice as he discovers the resounding hope of rekindled religion,” the movie synopsis reads.

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