Audience of One
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2009-04-21Genre: Documentary
Director: Michael Jacobs
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MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: Anthology is thrilled to present the NY Theatrical Premiere Run of Audience of One, a documentary that follows an obsessive pastor on his quest to produce Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph, a $50-million biblical science fiction movie that would redefine the Hollywood epic.
Ten years ago, Pastor Richard Gazowsky from the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco received a "prophetic whisper", a directive from God to make movies for the Lord. Using donations from his congregation, he slowly transformed his church into a fully-functioning movie studio, and Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. After experimenting on a number of small projects, Pastor Gazowsky announced that he and his WYSIWYG crew were going to make Gravity, a cross between Star Wars and The Ten Commandments.
Audience of One is a documentary that chronicles the making of Gravity. This vérité-style film goes inside a Pentecostal church, where the charismatic Gazowsky leads his loyal cast and crew on an incredible journey that tests the limits of faith. From pre-production at their church, to shooting principal photography in Italy, to leasing an enormous studio on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, Audience of One keeps pace with an embattled church production that looks to God in order to keep the dream alive. Full of humor and pathos, what transpires is a story of obsession, faith, and delusion, in the tradition of earlier chronicles of kamikaze filmmaking, such as Les Blank's Burden of Dreams and George Hickenlooper's Hearts of Darkness. Source: Anthology
Ten years ago, Pastor Richard Gazowsky from the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco received a "prophetic whisper", a directive from God to make movies for the Lord. Using donations from his congregation, he slowly transformed his church into a fully-functioning movie studio, and Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. After experimenting on a number of small projects, Pastor Gazowsky announced that he and his WYSIWYG crew were going to make Gravity, a cross between Star Wars and The Ten Commandments.
Audience of One is a documentary that chronicles the making of Gravity. This vérité-style film goes inside a Pentecostal church, where the charismatic Gazowsky leads his loyal cast and crew on an incredible journey that tests the limits of faith. From pre-production at their church, to shooting principal photography in Italy, to leasing an enormous studio on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, Audience of One keeps pace with an embattled church production that looks to God in order to keep the dream alive. Full of humor and pathos, what transpires is a story of obsession, faith, and delusion, in the tradition of earlier chronicles of kamikaze filmmaking, such as Les Blank's Burden of Dreams and George Hickenlooper's Hearts of Darkness. Source: Anthology
