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David Corwin (Rob Reisman) Corwin Construction business owner David Corwin has thrown family and church out the window. After the death of his wife Jen, he becomes cold hearted towards the things of God, despite his sons position in ministry. As time goes on, the bills pile, the pressure mounts, and David is left grieving the death of his wife and searching for the ultimate answer...why? IN REAL LIFE: Rob Reisman is a stay at home dad with 5 kids. He works in the Awana ministry at his local church as a leader.	Steven Corwin (Eric Stevenson) Steven is the Director of Media Production as his local church, using his talents for the Lord. At home however, he is left with a broken family. As he watches his father cope with his mothers death, he struggles to figure out how he can help. In talking with his best friend Maggie, Steven realizes he must be the Christian example for his father, no matter what his attitude toward it might be. IN REAL LIFE: Eric Stevenson is an actor living in Houghton, NY.
Shawn Rutgers (Aaron Slack) Shawn is David's right hand man on the job site, and has been friends with David and his family since Corwin Construction began. Although much younger, Shawn has a close friendship with David and cares for his well being. With David becoming more disconnected and run down as time goes on, Shawn tries to figure out ways to help Davids situation. IN REAL LIFE: Aaron Slack is a youth leader at his local church as well as a history teacher at Starpoint Central School District.	Maggie Harper (Maggie Whitton) Maggie has been Steven's best friend since they were kids. She now goes to college full-time and serves in the Drama ministry at her local church. Maggie attempts to give advice, and help Steven cope with his fathers actions in the home as well as be a shoulder to lean on when things get tough. IN REAL LIFE: Maggie Whitton is in High School, and plans to go to college for Music or Drama/Arts. She also serves at her church in the Drama ministry.
Jen Corwin (Deb Prohaska) Jen is David's wife and the strong Christian in the home. Her and David have slowly grown apart because of their conflicting views over God and the church. After an argument one night, Jen goes for a drive to clear her head and is killed by a drunk driver. Although gone, she is never forgotten, especially by David who is grieving over her sudden death. The Christian values she instilled in her son Steven are left behind for him to grow on and to be a light to her husband. IN REAL LIFE: Deb Prohaska serves are her local church teaching Sunday School, and teaching Ladies Bible Study. She is also involved in a local rescue mission, reaching those lost for Christ.	John Corwin (Dave Gifford) John is David's father and is retired living at home, working in his workshop on occasion. John attempted to bring up David in the ways of the Lord but rebellion on David's part led to failure. John rarely sees his son, and phone calls are slim to none. Being one of the people who understands David's attitude the best, John tries to strengthen Steven's heart with truth. IN REAL LIFE: Dave Gifford was chairman of the deacons at his local church and chairperson for the building committee for 5 years. He is currently a village board member of Youngstown, NY.
Katie Harper (Katie Whitton) Katie is a long time family friend of the Corwin family. She serves as secretary at her church and works with Steven in the media department. She attempts to be a beacon of light to Steven when things seem dim, and keep his head high amongst the struggles at home. IN REAL LIFE: Katie Whitton is a stay at home mom with three girls. She serves at her local church in the media ministry helping with DVD Duplication, and runs the Drama department.	Pastor Billy (Billy Crone) Pastor Billy is the pastor at David and Steven's local church, speaking on sundays and helping those in the church family to grow in Christ. Pastor helps guide David through this tough time and help him understand the possible reason behind his wife's death, and what David can learn from it. IN REAL LIFE: Billy Crone serves as Pastor at Niagara Frontier Bible Church in Lewiston, NY.

Kyle Prohaska
Director, Writer, Exec. Producer

STANDING FIRM is the first feature film Written, Directed, and Produced by Kyle Prohaska.

Kyle joined the staff of Niagara Frontier Bible Church in 2006 as Director of Media Production, managing the church's media ministry including their weekly TV Broadcast, Sermon DVD's, and the website for the church.

Always wanting to make movies as a kid, Kyle attempted to make that idea a reality but a lack of interest by his friends and a lack of resources led him to postpone his movie making ventures. But that never stopped him from learning the technical things he could on the computer. Starting at the age of twelve up until present, Kyle now has almost a decade of experience in almost every well known piece of video/image related software and web creation techniques. Little did he know that God had something big he was going to use that experience for in the future. Going to college for engineering, the first semester was tough, and it wasn't long before he realized that engineering wasn't what God was calling him to do. Kyle wanted to pursue something in film. All well known film schools are financially a burden often costing $100,000 or more for a 4 year degree. But knowing God would provide, Kyle left college to make his dream a reality.

Niagara Frontier Bible Church, had been without a pastor for well over a year, but one man was on the way that was going to flip the church upside-down and for the better. Pastor Billy Crone, a California native was up to the plate to visit the church in hopes of being selected. Kyle's mother Debra invited the Pastor and his family to stay at their home while they visited. When they arrived, Kyle didn't think much of it. The family arrived at their house and began chatting downstairs. After a little bit Debra got onto a topic about her son and how he is into software and video related arts. Something that was unknown to everyone at NFBC is the church that Pastor Billy had just come from had a media ministry that he helped create and that if voted in as Pastor at NFBC, he would want to start another because of its tremendous ability to impact others for Christ. Asking where Kyle was, he found out he was upstairs and walked into Kyle's room. Immediately a connection between them was made and from that point on they knew that it was meant to be. God brought all the puzzle pieces together just perfectly.

Pastor Billy was eventually voted in at NFBC and since his first sermon on April 30th, 2006...not only has NFBC's website been viewed by people in almost every country on the planet, and thousands of sermon DVD's and series been distributed across the globe, but hundreds of testimonies and praises have arrived by email from people all over the world.

Almost a year into the ministry, the drive to create a film built and it was time to try on top of the media work. But how can you make a film when your in full-time ministry? One day in April 2007, Kevin Michael (a member of the church) walked into Kyle's office with two movies, Facing the Giants and Flywheel. With Kevin's advice Kyle went home and watched both. What a blessing it was! Knowing these kinds of films were possible on a limited scale and with the help of a church family. Not only that, but the Director and Co-Writer Alex Kendrick and his brother Co-Writer Stephen Kendrick, who created both of those films, not only work fulltime at Sherwood Baptist Church (the church that created the films) on staff, but have families to boot. It showed Kyle that is could be done! With God nothing is impossible! So in May 2006 off they both started Praise Pictures Inc. a company dedicated to winning the lost for Christ through film. Also in May, Kevin and Kyle began creating the script and planning out what would eventually become their first film, STANDING FIRM. Since the age he was 12, God has deliberately brought all these pieces together for this one film.

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