Buzz Film Festival

As part of this conference in DC, there was an evening of watching original movies a bunch of churches put together to either promote an event or sermon series or illustrate a point. The judges selected what they thought were the best to show us attendees the other night.

I was amazed at how creative some of these churches are! WOW! There are some really neat ideas. My favorite was a film titles Why Don't We Pray sung to the tune of YMCA...I laughed the entire time! Unfortunately for me, that one didn't win.

It was neat to see the amount of talent we in the body of Christ have. There was a disappointment, though...at the end, the question was asked

How much of this can we just take and use

And of all the finalists only one church was willing to pipe up and offer their work for others. If we are all in the body of Christ together...if we all have the same goals of bringing the news of Jesus to people, why are we stuck in a proprietary mindset that we made the movie you can't have it. We need to have an open source mindset and partner with others to get the message out! None of RCC's movies made it to the finals, but our stuff is available for anybody's use. We are happy to work to pull off anything on a project that identifies it as an RCC project so it can be used in other churches and they can brand it as their own.

When we get back, we are going to have to work with our creative team to start making some of our resources open source instead of making them proprietary