The
Redemptive Film Festival is a Virginia based festival
aimed at providing a forum for filmmakers (professionals
or students), to showcase and be rewarded for their work
on themes that depict the redemptive purposes of God, either
through human beings or supernatural occurrences; and to
participate in the process of redeeming and empowering victims
of modern day slavery. Films can be of any genre and need
not be overtly religious, nor draw conclusions. The exception
to this rule is our exclusive "Distinctly Gospel"
category.
Is the
Redemptive Film Festival a Christian Film Festival?
Our Distinctly
Gospel category is a 100% exclusively Christian Film Festival.
However, unlike many Christian Film Festivals or a religious
film festival, our other two categories (Student and Professional)
accept non religious films, which adhere to Judeo-Christian
values, are redemptive in purpose, and do not demean religion,
avoids gratuitous violence, nudity or profanity.
Why are
you hosting non-Christian films?
While our competition
attracts many of the same films you would find in a Religious
Film Festival or a Christian Film Festival, there are several
reasons we accept non-religious films in our competition.
First, we want
to promote wholesome family entertainment. Second, our film
festival gives us an opportunity to encourage filmmakers
to tell redemptive stories. Finally, we have the opportunity
of presenting the Gospel to filmmakers who are shaping our
culture. Each page of the Redemptive Film Festival's web
site has a link to the "Greatest
Story," which is a gospel presentation. Unlike
many strictly Christian Film festivals or religious film
festivals, the Redemptive Film Festival has the opportunity
to reach people of different faiths and no faith at all,
but who are interested in telling positive stories of redemption.
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