Opening Ceremonies and the Arneson

Deanna, Kait and I went downtown this evening to attend the opening ceremonies of the SAICFF. It’s late but I wanted to share a few of the photos we took this evening. hope you can get a bit of the flavor of the evening.

Here you see the registration table in the lobby of the Lila Cockriel Theater at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Kaitlyn is plotting her weekend with an official program hot off the presses.

You can see some Seargents, Horns and Montoyfels hard at work. Thanks for your help ladies!!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingNext we ran into old friends - Mark Amy, and Isaac Stubblefield catching up a bit with my good friend Kevin Turley. He is the Vision Forum Director ofOperations and one ofthe key individuals whose sacrifice make the festival possible. Thank you Kevin for your hard work!
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingThis random bit of joy brought to you by Tim Horn.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video Hosting
Once the theater opened we took our seats as the opening ceremonies commenced. The speakers reminded us of why we are there and gave us a preview of the lectures, workshops, and a few sneak peaks.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video Hosting
Kevin Sawnson reminded us we are in a culture war.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingR.C. Sproul Jr. told us this year’s crop of films was the best he had seen in 4 years of judging and let us know he would be lecturing on developing a Christian aesthetic in a post-modern world. The title of his speech will be “Putting the Meta back in our Narrative”
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingGeorge Sarris gave a a bit of a preview of his first new album in several years. He would be performing the new acts at the Arenson later in the evening.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingHere is a shot of Doug Phillips addressing a nearly full house as he introduced Ray Comfort of The Way of the Master (you can see lots of Way of the Master video’s hereThey played a Way of the Master video clip called God and Hollywood here it is for your enjoyment
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingDeanna and Kait enjoyed the video!
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingHere is Mr Comfort addressing the crowd. Below is 3 pictures from one of the trailers that debuted during opening ceremonies. Every year the film competition has a category for trailers to promote the festival. We were happy to see Newsie McGrady aka Nathaniel Darnell make an appearance and announce a special session on Saturday where he will tell the young and young at heart how to become an ENN reporter

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video Hosting



Here Newsie is assuring us he got all dressed up for the occasion…he even bought a new bow tie and tied it himself!
Lastly Mr. Geoff Botkin let’s us know that he is going to be giving his talk that was so popular last year called “How to Analyze a Hollywood Movie”

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingMr. Botkin’s daughters new movie Return of the Daughters (which is excellent btw) will be premiering tonight at the festival

After we adjorned we all walked a few blocks to the Arneson River Theater to enjoy an open air concert in the balmy San Antonio fall weather.


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video Hosting The crowd is enjoying the music of the Booher Brothers are playing some old-time cowboy music to start the show.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingNext George Sarris regaled us with new material from the books of I Samuel and Daniel ( he is premiering the sale of his new cd at the film festival this week! YES I already got one

We left for home as the Booher’s were taking the stage again after all it was 9:15 and we had an hor and a half drive home.

Keep an eye on Nathaniel, Caleb and Crystal’s blogs and see if they post some updates. As well as Doug Phillips blog.
I don’t know yet if there is anyone who is officially live blogging the event but I will be happy to point you to them if I find out.

Pc3

If you're new here, please take a moment to introduce yourself! If you enjoyed this post, feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

You loved it, right? Here's more like it:

1. 11 pictures (and one to grow on) of Lydia on her 11th birthday
2. In which the boy "sings"
3. From the photo shoot for the new header
4. My Boy!
5. He’s up

Did you enjoy this post? Subscribe so you'll never miss a new post!

Filed under: Huh? Category?, Vision Forum

4 Responses to “Opening Ceremonies and the Arneson”

1. Kathleen Smith, on October 26th, 2007 at 7:01 pm Said:

   Dear Kim,
   I’m a long, long time lurker. I read your very first blog after seeing it at your dh’s! Please keep us updated on SAICFF. This is the first year that no Smiths will be there and we are missing it so much. I also have a small appearance in Monstrous Regiment. If you are able, would you please live-blog (like live-labor-blog)? It would be so appreciated.
   Blessings,
   Kathleen

2. kimc, on October 27th, 2007 at 8:51 pm Said:

   Kathleen,
   Sorry - I wasn’t able to live-blog the festival. It was all I could do to drag myself and the kids home alive tonight, and we skipped out on the Award Ceremonies at the end.
   But we’ll certainly post some more photos and details and tell about all the people we met this year. Meeting friends, old and new, is more than half the fun!

3. Sallie, on October 27th, 2007 at 9:02 pm Said:

   Kim —

   I’m loving the posts about the SAICFF. Our oldest son is on the autism spectrum and loves movies. We are thinking this is a gift he needs to pursue for a career but of course want it to be with a group that has a Christian viewpoint. We couldn’t come this year but maybe next year!

   God bless,
   Sallie

4. Sonya, on November 1st, 2007 at 12:15 am Said:

   I see one of my pastor’s made it there safely! I forgot they were going to this! One of these years, I hope to attend. It always looks so fun!

Leave a Reply