Family Theater Productions
Student Film Festival
Family Theater Productions created the Angelus Student Film Festival in 1996. The festival cultivates and honors future filmmakers as they explore and create works that respect the dignity of the human person.
See the Schedule for more information, or visit the Angelus web site.
Past Winners
Animation
Das Flos
Jan ThüringTwo starved and exhausted castaways are lost at sea, when a seagull drops a fish on their raft. THE RAFT explores relationships and life's questions...does man truly need others to survive?
Live Action
Jeffrey's Calypso
Vashti AndersonWorking at an oil company to please his father, Jeffrey hides his secret passion for old time calpyso music. Upon meeting the free-spirited Kala, will Jeffrey defy social boundaries of Trinidadian culture to be true to himself?
Documentary
Unhitched
Erin Hudson and Ben WuTucked away in a redwood grove in Northern California, the Fairie Ring Campground and RV Park serves as one of the only options for low income housing in the area. Unhitched illustrates the value of having a place to call home and expands our notions of community.
Behind the Scenes
05/05/08 - Tony Sands directs a scene for Family Theater Productions’ new drama, Assumptions, while Family Theater’s sound engineer, Elli Bazini, holds the boom mike. Sands, Family Theater’s Administrator and a USC film school graduate, also directed Finding Mary. Both films, new episodes of Family Theater Productions’ Manifest Mysteries series, have recently been released for broadcast and are expected to be available in DVD for home and class use in mid-June. »