Standing Firm : Behind the Message
While all of our supporters out there wait for a new site, a new trailer, a release date, etc., let me take some time to tell you about what this film is REALLY about.
I’m just going to be honest with all of you, this film is a personal project. The core of the problems within the story are built around my parents marriage and some things I remember as a kid. Granted the Lord has graciously held my family together and I have the honor of being the son of two wonderful parents that I love very much and who both now love the Lord with all their heart. For that I’m thankful.
When we brought in the issue of death and suffering, none of us knew just how hard the lesson would be. Before, during, and after shooting, the cast and crew went through a lot of heartache. A week before shooting I lost my grandmother, a month or two in one of my best friends lost his mom, another month later a young woman in our church family passed as well, and many others leading all the way until this past May where I lost my best friend, only days before moving 3000 miles to a new home. As I wept asking God for a story to tell long before shooting started and the script was written, he knew about the tragedies coming down the line and the exact story we needed to write. It wasn’t just a message for others who experience the same pain, but for us as well while we created the film. God war preparing us far in advance.
The more I look at the edit, the heavier the burden feels. As a filmmaker, you want to tell a story, but rarely is one so deeply wrapped in emotion and history of those involved. There is an overwhelming realization of the importance of this story. This isn’t about dollars or sales, recognition or fame…it’s about the parent who lost their child, the wife who lost her husband, and the one who lost his friend, and all the other millions upon millions of people out there who look at this world each and every day, gazing on it’s problems and the evil acts that go on in it and ask…If there is a God….then WHY?
Please pray for us, there are so many things we have left to complete. We need good distribution for this film if we’re to get it into peoples hands. We need a score whether that’s from the distributor or a donation, we can’t pay for it. Personally I’m asking for your prayers, for the film especially but please for me that I can have enough energy to complete it and do my job well. Unless we get some money from someone or a distributor likes the film when we mail it at the end of this month, I’ll be continuing to work on the film alone…as it’s been in the post-production side of things for almost a year.
How many of you out there have a family member or friend that could use a message like this? PRAY FOR THIS FILM.
Kyle Prohaska
Writer/Director/Producer
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