10 Years Is Not Uncommon To Make A Movie by Long Beach City College Professor Elias Daughdrill
Film Courage: You have a movie that is about religion but you say it’s not faith-based?
Long Beach City College Film Professor/Filmmaker, Elias Daughdrill: Yes, it’s not a faith-based film but it’s a film about religion. I guess religion is a subject matter but faith-based means to me that it’s a movie that is trying to get the audience to believe in a specific religious doctrine because that is what most faith-based movies do. And so it’s not that, it’s not a film trying to proselytize.
I grew up in that world. I grew up an evangelical Christian and so naturally it’s something I find interesting. And I could tell a specific story about it so that’s why I got interested in it and decided to make it.
Film Courage: And the film hasn’t been released yet?
Elias: No, it’s not finished yet, almost. I’m in the midst of color and sound design and all of that sort of stuff so we’re almost there.
Film Courage: When you were creating the protagonist for the film, did you start with a problem or a dilemma that needed to be solved?
Elias: Hmmm…yes…I guess I did? I knew I wanted to make a film in that world and I knew I wanted to design it around a scenario where a character who is devout goes through a crisis. A character who is only seen or understood the world in one way is then put into a situation where…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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