AWARD-WINNING FILM “ELECTRIC JESUS” CONTINUES TO CHARM AT FILM FESTIVALS
WINS “BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE”
AT 2020 ROME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
VIDEO FOR “COMMANDO FOR CHRIST” HERE
VIDEO FOR “GIRL (I LOVE JESUS TOO”) HERE
VIDEO FOR “BARABBAS” HERE
GREENVILLE, SC – Coming-of-age music-comedy “Electric Jesus” continues to charm audiences and critics across the country this fall with its latest win at the Rome International Film Festival 2020 for “Best Narrative Feature.”
“We were thrilled to be selected as Rome International Film Festival’s opening night film. RIFF is a well-curated, widely-respected, filmmaker-driven festival — certainly one of the best in the Southeast,” says writer/director Chris White. “Then, to be selected as RIFF’s Best Narrative Feature...we’re all so happy! It’s been a tough year for film festivals and indie filmmakers, so ending our fall festival tour on such a high note is a gift our entire team will cherish for years to come.”
“Electric Jesus” follows the ill-fated journey of a never-famous 80’s Christian hair metal band (316) who spends the summer of 1986 playing rock music meant to ‘make Jesus famous’.
Earlier in November, the film took home the awards for “Best Picture,” “Best Director” (Chris White) and “Best Supporting Performance” (Brian Baumgartner) at the 2020 Orlando Film Festival and “Best Narrative Feature” at the 2020 Fayetteville Film Festival.
Written and directed by Chris White, the film features Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Brian Baumgartner (The Office), new/emerging stars Wyatt Lenhart (singer/guitarist), Will Oliver (lead guitarist), Gunner Willis (bassist) and Caleb Hoffmann (drummer) as 316, Andrew Eakle (sound man) and Shannon Hutchinson (preacher’s daughter).
With an original score and music by Daniel Smith (Danielson Famile), fictitious band 316 plays an otherworldly mash-up of 80’s hair metal and vacation Bible school that wears its teenage protagonists’ hearts on its sleeve while rocking their socks off. The soundtrack will be released on Joyful Noise Recordings in early 2021.
“Electric Jesus doesn’t want to save you. But it does want to prove that Christian rock can have a soul.” – Document Journal
“Take a screenwriter who is also a music fan and bring him together with a songwriter who’s a movie fan and you have the main ingredients necessary to create the soundtrack for Electric Jesus…” – American Songwriter
“White understands that the best way to bring religious and non-religious people on the same plane is through music, and he gives Daniel Smith free rein to create some head-banging numbers. Since all of the song sequences are shot, edited, acted, and sung to perfection, you cannot help but enjoy it. That’s religious propaganda done well and despite being an atheist, I respect that.” – Mashable
"One of the best 'band' movies I’ve ever seen—one, because the film is a bit of a love letter to Stryper and the whole 80’s Christian rock scene, but also because it shows Christian characters in a way that doesn’t hate on them OR turn them into fanatical, Jesus superheroes. It’s just real, honest, true." – Michael Sweet (of Stryper)
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