In July 2002 Family Theater launched a new outreach ministry to the entertainment industry called Hollywood Prays {Praise}. Monthly Prayer-and-Pasta nights complemented the existing Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, for those who want to learn more about the Catholic faith or pursue full initiation in into the Catholic Church. Two study groups, one on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and another on "Going Deeper" into the Catholic faith, meet regularly at Family Theater. Hollywood Prays is meant to signal to Catholics in the entertainment industry that they have a spiritual home in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard ... »
Consultation is available for stories, treatments, screenplays and productions that deal in any way with Catholics and/or the Catholic Church. Also available are resources for news stories that deal with the Catholic Church ... »
Opportunities exist for volunteers from the film industry to participate in the adjudication process of entries to the Angelus Student Film Festival. Also, there are opportunities for internships in film, television and radio production ... »
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. »