{"id":11107,"date":"2011-11-03T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:46:17","slug":"faith-based-films-gaining-foothold-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11107","title":{"rendered":"Faith-Based Films Gaining Foothold  In Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A film genre is currently taking over Hollywood. It&#8217;s known as faith based-films.<\/p>\n<p>At its forefront is 33-year-old <strong>DeVon Franklin<\/strong>, who is vice president of production for Columbia Pictures (a division of Sony).<\/p>\n<p>With more than a decade of experience in the film industry, <strong>Franklin<\/strong> has helped create films with religious undercurrents, such as <em>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em> and most recently, <em>Jumping the Broom<\/em> &#8212; one of his greatest successes. &#8220;<em>Jumping the Broom<\/em> was a great experience,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was bigger than a movie it was a movement.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there have been fewer films in the African-American market and fewer writers, and this film turned that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Franklin<\/strong>, the faith-based film genre came from his wanting to create movies that would inspire audiences: &#8220;I have always wanted to create movies that really allow people to see themselves on screen. Movies that give people a sense of hope and purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film genre is currently taking over Hollywood. It&#8217;s known as faith based-films. At its forefront is 33-year-old DeVon Franklin, who is vice president of production for Columbia Pictures (a division of Sony). With more than a decade of experience in the film industry, Franklin has helped create films with religious undercurrents, such as The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}