{"id":3385,"date":"2025-01-07T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:27:36","slug":"listen-up-its-time-to-celebrate-faith-film-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/listen-up-its-time-to-celebrate-faith-film-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up: It\u2019s Time To Celebrate, Faith Film Fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written By: Bob Gordon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Faith Film Fan Podcast is now 50! Well, it\u2019s actually now 50+ episodes into its wonderful run of introducing you to the filmmakers and stars of your favorite faith films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our recent 50<sup>th<\/sup> episode highlighted the first time both Rick Altizer and Alita Reynolds hosted together, talking about why they are such big fans of faith films.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFilms can communicate in a way that no other mediums can,\u201d Rick says. \u201cA film can break down barriers we have and connect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s so great about these films is you can invite your friend who might never step into a church building, but they\u2019ll go to a movie theater with you,\u201d Alita adds. \u201cI love how a seed can be planted and a life can be transformed in so many different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the 50<sup>th<\/sup> celebration, Rick and Alita recently jointly interviewed industry leader Bob Elder about the state of faith films and series in 2024 and what lies ahead in 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the first time since we\u2019ve been tracking Christian films, 2024 was the first time we had a faith film in theaters every day of the year\u2014from January 1 to December 31. You could find a Christian film in theaters every day,\u201d Bob says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the fun elements that Bob talked about for 2025 is an influx of animated faith movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have three animated features (scheduled) this year. \u2026 I think our audience is going to be really pleased because these experiences will be wonderful for families, but they&#8217;ll also be wonderful for reaching the world and reminding people of who their creator is and how much God loves us, that he would sacrifice his son for us in the case of the two gospel-focused ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to listen the full episode 54 with Bob, Alita, and Rick. And whether you like <a href=\"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/podcast\">listening on the go<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@faithfilmfan\">or watching from your phone or laptop<\/a>, the Faith Film Fan Podcast is available wherever and however you prefer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to listen up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Bob Gordon The Faith Film Fan Podcast is now 50! Well, it\u2019s actually now 50+ episodes into its wonderful run of introducing you to the filmmakers and stars of your favorite faith films. Our recent 50th episode highlighted the first time both Rick Altizer and Alita Reynolds hosted together, talking about why they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilmfan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}