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Congress to feature first-ever Salvation Army film festival

12 June 2015

In a theatre meant to hold 4000 people, nearly 12,000 Salvationists came from every corner of the African country and squeezed into seats, aisles and any available floor space.

General André Cox had returned to Zimbabwe, his birthplace.  

The scene was captured on film, with the International Headquarters communications team and the USA Western Territory’s SAVN.tv partnering to produce a documentary on the event.

Entitled “Homecoming Africa,” the documentary is about the General and Commissioner Silvia Cox’s journey to Zimbabwe and will be premiered in a first-ever Salvation Army film festival at Boundless – The Whole World Redeeming at The O2 Arena in London.

In addition to the premiere of “Homecoming Africa,” International Headquarters and SAVN.tv will also screen “Ethembeni – A Place of Hope”, a documentary chronicling The Salvation Army’s ministry in this children's home in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Three screens at the O2’s Cineworld – the second-largest cinema operator in the United Kingdom – will host Salvation Army films on 2-3 July, during the Army’s 150th anniversary congress.  

“Some basic submission guidelines were created and the festival was born as a submission-based competition,” said International Congress team member Jeremiah Hinson. “I began researching film festivals, discussing with Army film units and tracking down content.”

The festival received 35 submissions from individual filmmakers from Poland, to India, France, Germany, America, the UK, Denmark and Switzerland. Hinson partnered with SAVN.tv and the USA Southern Territory’s Salvation Army Today to choose up to 10 films that will be screened. All submissions will be featured on the Boundless YouTube channel.

“We want to empower the filmmakers and open whatever doors we can for their work to be seen,” Jeremiah said.

Jeremiah hopes to see continued filmmaking and screening events in The Salvation Army.

“We want to inspire people to think outside the box, to get creative, to push the limits and expand the reach that filmmaking can have on the work of The Salvation Army and ultimately the Kingdom of God,” he said. “The possibilities are opening, the opportunities are presenting themselves and the people are getting empowered.” 

Report courtesy of IHQ

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