With a minute left before the deadline, Mike Cahill raced along
Burbank's Providencia Avenue to get to Media City Church on time.(Pictured: John David Ware, who helped found the contest in 2003, says the one-week production deadline forces aspiring filmmakers to do their best work.)
He was rushing to get his short film, "In the Company of Sinners," into the 168 Film Festival, the culmination of a faith-based competition that helps Christian filmmakers break into the mainstream movie business.
"I made it. Yes!" Cahill yelled, raising his clipboard above his head.
Seconds later, Adekunle Ilori, who had fought traffic all the way from Lancaster, became the last of 73 competitors to qualify.
"I prayed all the way here," Ilori said, bending over and out of breath. "I said 'God, please let me make it.' " She then led a prayer circle with the crowd gathered on the sidewalk.
Cahill's and Ilori's entries are pitted in this year's contest against work from 15 states and nine countries, including Israel, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Cameroon.
The 168 Hour Film Project, now in its eighth year, pushes filmmakers to hone their craft by creating films of less than 11 minutes based on a Bible verse they draw randomly just before production starts. Teams have one week to come up with their finished product.
"The 168 in the name stands for 24 hours times 7 days," said John David Ware, a filmmaker who founded the project in 2003. Ware believes the intense deadline pressure forces filmmakers to do their best work even as they illuminate the word of God.
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