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Audience of One

(Michael Jacobs, USA, 2007, DigiBeta, 88 min)

Meet Richard Gazowsky, pastor of the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco and self-anointed film director. While most filmmakers are drawn to their work by creative impulse and passion to tell a story, Gazowsky was called upon by God to make a magnum opus. When a message from above instructed him to start a film company, Gazowsky knew he had no choice, and Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. Despite his complete lack of filmmaking experience, Gazowsky goes into production on Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph, an overtly religious sci-fi epic pitched as "Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments." Shooting on 70mm to achieve true biblical proportions, and working on little more than blind faith, miracles and blessings soon give way to a series of technical difficulties. Director Michael Jacobs fascinating and highly entertaining film overflows with humor and pathos, religiously documenting this modern story of obsession, faith and delusion