Lighting Candles -- Outside Hollywood

photo courtesy of SAICFF

(Feb 28 2009) PORTERVILLE, CA -- Last weekend’s Oscars have the newswires abuzz with the academy awards. While trophies for Best Male Actor go to Sean Penn for his portrayal of Homosexual activist Harvey Milk and Best Actress to Kate Winslet for her role in The Reader as a female Nazi war criminal seducing a 15 year-old-boy, National Public Radio (NPR) covered a very different film festival in the heart of Texas. The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) and Jubilee Awards are “Dedicated to filmmaking that will not tear down the biblical family. “Films, according to SAICFF founder, Doug Phillips, which are “made completely outside Hollywood.” More ...